Capillary flow-driven heat transfer enhancement

Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 553-560

  Suman, Balram ^a   Savino, Raffaele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

CAPILLARY PHENOMENA; ENHANCED HEAT TRANSFER; FLUID FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFERS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT; HEAT TRANSPORT CAPACITY; MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES; NON-MONOTONIC VARIATION;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 80054062618     PISSN: 08878722     EISSN: 15336808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.T3747     Document Type: Article

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