Applicability of entransy dissipation based thermal resistance for design optimization of two-phase heat exchangers

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 140-148

  Qian, Suxin ^a   Huang, Long ^a   Aute, Vikrant ^a   Hwang, Yunho ^a   Radermacher, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Entransy dissipation; Entropy generation; Heat exchanger optimization; Microchannel heat exchanger; Tube fin heat exchanger; Two phase entransy

Indexed keywords

ENTRANSY; ENTRANSY DISSIPATION; ENTROPY GENERATION; MICRO-CHANNEL HEAT EXCHANGERS; TUBE-FIN HEAT EXCHANGERS;

ENTROPY; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); FLOW RATE; MICROCHANNELS; OPTIMIZATION; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 84876125488     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2013.03.013     Document Type: Article

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