Condensation in a square minichannel: Application of the VOF method

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 193-203

  Bortolin, Stefano ^a   Da Riva, Enrico ^b   Del Col, Davide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONDENSATION; HEAT TRANSFER; LIQUID FILMS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; SURFACE TENSION;

CIRCULAR CROSS-SECTIONS; HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT; HEAT TRANSFER MECHANISM; INTERFACIAL SHEAR STRESS; SQUARE CROSS SECTION; UNIFORM WALL TEMPERATURES; VAPOR-LIQUID INTERFACES; VOLUME OF FLUID METHOD;

GRAVITATION;

EID: 84884631632     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: 15210537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457632.2013.812493     Document Type: Article

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