Saturated flow boiling heat transfer and critical heat flux in small horizontal flattened tubes

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 55, Issue 25-26, 2012, Pages 7873-7883

  Tibiriçá, Cristiano Bigonha ^a   Ribatski, Gherhardt ^a   Thome, John Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Convective boiling; Critical heat flux; Flattened tubes; Microchannel; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR TUBES; CONVECTIVE BOILING; EQUIVALENT DIAMETER; EQUIVALENT LENGTH; FLATTENED TUBES; FLOW BOILING HEAT TRANSFER; GEOMETRY EFFECTS; HEAT TRANSFER AREA; HEAT TRANSFER CORRELATION; INTERNAL DIAMETERS; MASS VELOCITY; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; NEW PARAMETERS; ROUND TUBES; SATURATED FLOW BOILING HEAT TRANSFER; SATURATION TEMPERATURE; STRATIFICATION EFFECTS; WORKING FLUID;

ASPECT RATIO; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; MICROCHANNELS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; REFRIGERANTS;

TUBES (COMPONENTS);

EID: 84867547025     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2012.08.017     Document Type: Article

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