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The heat transfer performance of a liquid metal flowing inside a 1-mm channel with different lengths was numerically investigated and compared with water. Inlet velocity of the liquid metal was varied to simulate same inlet velocity and pressure drop conditions as water. Pressure drop and heat transfer coefficient for both fluids were compared for different channel lengths and wall heat flux. It was found that the performance of the fluids is influenced by the heat flux, but is strongly dependent on the channel length-to-diameter ratio and the inlet flow rate used.
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Li, P., Kuravi, S. (2014). Comparative Study of Thermal Performance of Liquid Metal and Water Flow Through a Channel. In: Khangura, S., Singh, P., Singh, H., Brar, G. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Research and Innovations in Mechanical Engineering. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1859-3_46
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