Correlation of water frost porosity in laminar flow over flat surfaces

Special Topics and Reviews in Porous Media

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 79-87

  Kandula, Max ^a  

^a KENNEDY SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Frost density; Frost porosity; Porous media; Temperature and Reynolds number dependence; Water frost

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT AIR; COLD PLATES; CRITICAL REYNOLDS NUMBER; DIMENSIONLESS CORRELATION; FLAT SURFACES; FORCED FLOWS; FREEZING TEMPERATURES; LAMINAR-TURBULENT TRANSITION; PLATE TEMPERATURE; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

AIR; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; LAMINAR FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

POROSITY;

EID: 84860662400     PISSN: 21514798     EISSN: 2151562X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/SpecialTopicsRevPorousMedia.v3.i1.70     Document Type: Review

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