Boiling on a tube bundle: Part I-flow visualization and onset of dryout

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 913-929

  Rooyen, Eugene Van ^a   Agostini, Francesco ^b   Borhani, Navid ^a   Thome, John R ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b ABB SWITZERLAND LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIABATIC; DRY-OUT; DUMMY TUBES; FLOODED EVAPORATORS; FLOW PATTERN MAP; HEAT TRANSFER DATA; HIGH SPEED VIDEO CAMERAS; LASER LIGHTS; LOW MASS; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PLAIN TUBES; PREDICTION METHODS; SATURATION TEMPERATURE; SMOOTH TUBES; TUBE BUNDLE; VERTICAL FLOWS; VISUAL ACCESS; VISUALIZATION METHOD;

EVAPORATORS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; TWO PHASE FLOW;

TUBES (COMPONENTS);

EID: 84859308668     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: 15210537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457632.2012.654724     Document Type: Article

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