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Heat transfer during condensation in vertical closed thermosiphons

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The results are presented of an experimental investigation of the hydrodynamic characteristics of a two-phase layer and of the heat-transfer behavior under characteristic operating conditions of the condensing section of a thermosiphon.

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 9–16, July, 1986.

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Bezrodnyi, M.K., Moklyak, V.F. Heat transfer during condensation in vertical closed thermosiphons. Journal of Engineering Physics 51, 753–758 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00871352

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