Experimental study on the flow regime identification in the case of co-current condensation of R134a in a vertical smooth tube

2010 14th International Heat Transfer Conference, IHTC 14

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1-10

  Dalkilic, Ahmet Selim ^a   Wongwises, Somchai ^b  

^a YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KING MONGKUT'S UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THONBURI   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNULAR CONDENSATION; ANNULAR FLOWS; CONDENSATION TEMPERATURE; COOLING WATER TEMPERATURE; DOUBLE-TUBE HEAT EXCHANGER; EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLOW REGIME IDENTIFICATION; FLOW REGIME MAP; INNER DIAMETERS; MASS FLOW RATE; OPERATING CONDITION; OPERATING PARAMETERS; PATTERN CORRELATION; SATURATION TEMPERATURE; SMOOTH COPPER; SMOOTH TUBES; TEST TUBE; TUBE LENGTH; VERTICAL TUBE; WORKING FLUID;

CONDENSATION; COOLING WATER; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; PIPE FLOW;

TUBES (COMPONENTS);

EID: 84860539249     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IHTC14-22057     Document Type: Conference Paper

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