Bubble and film dynamics during condensation of refrigerants in minichannels

2010 14th International Heat Transfer Conference, IHTC 14

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 177-186

  Keinath, Brendon L ^a   Garimella, Srinivas ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL OPERATION; AIR-WATER MIXTURE; FILM DYNAMICS; HEAT TRANSFER MODEL; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH-SPEED VIDEO; IMAGE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; IN-CHANNELS; MINI-CHANNELS; ON FLOW; OPERATING CONDITION; QUANTITATIVE IMAGE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; REFRIGERATION EQUIPMENT; SATURATION TEMPERATURE; VAPOR BUBBLE; VAPOR QUALITY; VISUALIZATION EXPERIMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CONDENSATION; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HEAT TRANSFER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRESSURE DROP; REFRIGERANTS; VOID FRACTION;

VAPORS;

EID: 84860543413     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IHTC14-22697     Document Type: Conference Paper

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