Boiling local heat transfer enhancement in minichannels using nanofluids

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-20

  Chehade, Ali Ahmad ^a   Gualous, Hasna Louahlia ^a   Le Masson, Stephane ^b   Fardoun, Farouk ^c   Besq, Anthony ^a  

^a Université de Caen Normandie   (France)

^b ORANGE LABS   (France)

^c LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Convective boiling; Minichannels; Nanofluid

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; HEAT TRANSFER PERFORMANCE; METAL NANOPARTICLES; SILVER NANOPARTICLES;

BOILING HEAT TRANSFER; CONVECTIVE BOILING; CONVECTIVE BOILING HEAT TRANSFER; LOCAL HEAT TRANSFER; LOCAL HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; MINI-CHANNELS; NANOFLUIDS; NANOPARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84876937139     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-8-130     Document Type: Article

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