One-dimensional semimechanistic model for flow boiling pressure drop in small to micro passages

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 13-14, 2011, Pages 1150-1159

  Shiferaw, Dereje ^a   Mahmoud, Mohamed ^b   Karayiannis, Tassos G ^b   Kenning, David B R ^b  

^a Meggitt PLC   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; BUBBLE REGIME; COOLING OF ELECTRONICS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLOW BOILING; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; HOMOGENEOUS FLOW MODEL; IN-PROCESS; MODEL RESULTS; SEMI-MECHANISTIC MODELS; SINGLE-PHASE LIQUIDS; THIN LIQUID FILM; TIME AVERAGING; TOTAL PRESSURE DROP; TUBE DIAMETERS; TWO-PHASE PRESSURE DROPS;

ELECTRONIC COOLING; FORECASTING; HEAT EXCHANGERS; LIQUID FILMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

PRESSURE DROP;

EID: 79960475619     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: 15210537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457632.2011.562726     Document Type: Article

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