An experimentally validated modeling of refrigerant distribution in a parallel microchannel evaporator

ASHRAE Transactions

Volumn 118, Issue PART 1, 2012, Pages 375-383

  Tuo, Hanfei ^a   Bielskus, Algirdas ^a   Hrnjak, Pega ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROPS; EVAPORATORS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; MICROCHANNELS; PRESSURE DROP; REFRIGERANTS;

EXPERIMENTAL FACILITIES; HEAT TRANSFER AND PRESSURE DROP CHARACTERISTICS; MICRO-CHANNEL EVAPORATORS; PARALLEL MICROCHANNELS; REFRIGERANT DISTRIBUTIONS; SINGLE-PHASE LIQUIDS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TWO-PHASE FLOW DISTRIBUTION;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 84864975356     PISSN: 00012505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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