Abstract
Results are presented from experimental studies and criterional equations are obtained for heat and mass transfer between a vertical heated channel and an upper mixing chamber in the case of unstable stratification of the density of the coolant and low rates of forced motion.
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 44, No. 5, pp. 714–720, May, 1983.
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Malkin, S.D., Khabenskii, V.B., Migrov, Y.A. et al. Study of heat and mass transfer between a heated channel and an upper mixing chamber. Journal of Engineering Physics 44, 474–478 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00831929
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00831929