Experimental investigation of two-phase pressure drop in a microchannel

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 13-14, 2011, Pages 1126-1138

  Ali, Rashid ^a   Palm, Björn ^a   Maqbool, Muhammad H ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR MICROCHANNEL; DIRECT HEATING; ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; HEATED LENGTHS; INTERNAL DIAMETERS; ITO (INDIUM-TIN OXIDE); OUTER SURFACE; PREDICTION CAPABILITY; SATURATION TEMPERATURE; SYSTEM PRESSURE; TEST SECTIONS; TEST TUBE; THIN LAYERS; TOTAL LENGTH; TWO-PHASE FRICTIONAL PRESSURE DROP; TWO-PHASE PRESSURE DROPS; VAPOR FRACTION; WORKING FLUID;

EXPERIMENTS; FUSED SILICA; HEAT FLUX; HEATING; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; PRESSURE DROP; TIN; TIN OXIDES; TWO PHASE FLOW;

MICROCHANNELS;

EID: 79960485611     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: 15210537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457632.2011.562463     Document Type: Article

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