Single- and multi-constituent condensation of fluids and mixtures with varying properties in micro-channels

Experimental Heat Transfer

Volumn 26, Issue 2-3, 2013, Pages 129-168

  Garimella, S ^a   Fronk, B M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

condensation; experiments; heat transfer; micro channel; modeling; pressure drop

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER AND PRESSURE DROP; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; MICRO-SCALES; NATURAL REFRIGERANTS; OPERATING CONDITION; PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES; ZEOTROPIC MIXTURE;

EXPERIMENTS; HEAT TRANSFER; MODELS; PRESSURE DROP; SURFACE TENSION;

CONDENSATION;

EID: 84877600271     PISSN: 08916152     EISSN: 15210480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08916152.2012.736841     Document Type: Article

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