An experimental study of the latent functionally thermal fluid with micro-encapsulated phase change material particles flowing in microchannels

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 105, Issue , 2016, Pages 209-216

  Wang, Yan ^a   Chen, Zhenqian ^b   Ling, Xiang ^a  

^a NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Heat transfer enhancement; Micro encapsulated phase change material; Microchannels; Visualized experiment

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; HEAT STORAGE; HEAT TRANSFER; MICROCHANNELS; MICROENCAPSULATION; PARALLEL FLOW; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

ENCAPSULATED PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT; HEAT TRANSFER PERFORMANCE; LATENT FUNCTIONALLY THERMAL FLUID; PARALLEL MICROCHANNELS; PARTICLES AGGREGATIONS; THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS;

AGGLOMERATION;

EID: 84973462546     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2016.05.159     Document Type: Article

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