Examination of the cooling performance of a two-stage thermoelectric cooler considering the Thomson effect

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 519-542

  Liu, Jou Yun ^a   Wen, Chang Da ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COOLING PERFORMANCE; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; INTERNAL HEAT TRANSFER; QUADRATIC POLYNOMIAL; SEEBECK; TEMPERATURE PREDICTION; TEST MODULES; THERMOELECTRIC COOLER; THOMSON; THOMSON EFFECTS; TWO-STAGE THERMOELECTRIC COOLERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; COOLING SYSTEMS; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRIC REFRIGERATION; THERMOELECTRICITY;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 80053083277     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407782.2011.609080     Document Type: Article

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