Boiling heat transfer and critical heat flux of ethanol-water mixtures flowing through a diverging microchannel with artificial cavities

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 55, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 1807-1814

  Fu, B R ^a   Tsou, M S ^a   Pan, Chin ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Critical heat flux; Flow boiling; Heat transfer coefficient; Marangoni effect; Mixtures

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL CAVITY; BOILING HEAT TRANSFER; BOILING INCIPIENCE; CONVECTIVE BOILING; CONVECTIVE BOILING HEAT TRANSFER; DIVERGING MICROCHANNELS; EMPIRICAL CORRELATIONS; ETHANOL WATER MIXTURES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLOW BOILING; MARANGONI EFFECTS; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; MOLAR FRACTIONS; ONSET OF NUCLEATE BOILING; SLUG FLOW; TEMPERATURE OVERSHOOT; TWO-PHASE HEAT TRANSFER;

ETHANOL; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; MICROCHANNELS; MIXTURES; NUCLEATE BOILING; PHASE TRANSITIONS; TABLE LOOKUP;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 84355162320     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2011.11.051     Document Type: Article

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