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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 789489, 7 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/789489
Research Article

Effect of Contact Angle on Steam Dropwise Condensation: A Simulation Approach

Milad Nahavandi and Arjomand Mehrabani-Zeinabad

Department of Chemical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 84156-83111, Iran

Received 22 January 2012; Accepted 14 February 2012

Academic Editors: C.-T. Hsieh and M. E. R. Shanahan

Copyright © 2012 Milad Nahavandi and Arjomand Mehrabani-Zeinabad. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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