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Heat Transfer in Confined Forced-Flow Boiling
Remarkably different behaviors are found when comparing micro-scale flow boiling heat transfer data by distinct authors, even under similar experimental conditions. Such differences are almost certainly related to the complexity of confined forced-flow boiling. Certain aspects of the phenomenon, which are negligible in the macro-scale, become surprisingly relevant when the system size becomes small. From the results reported in the literature on the thermal-fluid features of evaporating flows in small channels, the following study presents a discussion concerning convective boiling heat transfer, highlighting the aspects that are characteristic to confined two-phase flows.
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research article
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Publication date
2007
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Volume
28
Issue
10
Start page
826
End page
833
Peer reviewed
REVIEWED
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September 28, 2006
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