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HEAT TRANSFER CHARCACTERISTICS IN A COPPER MICRO-EVAPORATOR AND FLOW PATTERN-BASED PREDICTION METHOD FOR FLOW BOILING IN MICROCHANNELS

Etienne Costa-Patry^a, Jonathan Olivier^b, John R. Thome^a,∗

a Heat and Mass Transfer Laboratory (LTCM), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
b Photovoltaic Technology Intellectual Property (Pty) Ltd, South Africa

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