Critical heat flux of R134a and R245fa inside small-diameter tubes

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 492-499

  Tibiriçá, Cristiano B ^a,b   Szczukiewicz, Sylwia ^b   Ribatski, Gherhardt ^a   Thome, John R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL VAPOR QUALITY; HEATED LENGTHS; INLET SUBCOOLING; MASS VELOCITY; PREDICTIVE METHODS; SATURATED FLOW BOILING; SATURATION TEMPERATURE; STAINLESS STEEL TUBE; WORKING FLUID;

REFRIGERANTS; TUBES (COMPONENTS); TUBULAR STEEL STRUCTURES; VAPORS;

HEAT FLUX;

EID: 84870289953     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: 15210537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457632.2012.722457     Document Type: Article

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