Experimental results of flow boiling of water in a vertical microchannel

Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 111-119

  Sobierska, Ewelina ^a   Kulenovic, Rudi ^a   Mertz, Rainer ^a   Groll, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heat transfer; Microchannel; Pressure drop; Visualisation

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRAULICS; PRESSURE DROP;

HYDRAULIC DIAMETER; MICROCHANNELS; RECTANGULAR VERTICAL CHANNEL;

BOILING LIQUIDS;

BOILING LIQUIDS; CHANNEL FLOW; FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRAULICS; PRESSURE DROP;

EID: 33750620533     PISSN: 08941777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2006.03.022     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. E. Sobierska, J. Shuai, R. Mertz, R. Kulenovic, M. Groll, Friction factor and pressure drop oscillation during flow boiling of water in a vertical microchannel, in: Proceedings of the International Thermal Science Seminar II, Bled, Slovenia, 2004, pp. 763-770.
2. E. Sobierska, J. Shuai, R. Mertz, R. Kulenovic, M. Groll, Visualization and flow pattern map for flow boiling of water in a vertical microchannel, in: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Microchannels and Minichannels, Rochester, USA, 2004, pp. 491-497.
3. J. Shuai, R. Kulenovic, E. Sobierska, M. Groll, Flow boiling heat transfer in a vertical narrow channel, in: Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Two-phase Flow Modeling and Experimentation, Pisa, Italy, 2004, Paper No. pst10.
4. Lazarek G.M., and Black S.H. Evaporative heat transfer, pressure drop and critical heat flux in a small vertical tube with R-113. Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 25 7 (1982) 945-960
5. K. Cornwell, P.A. Kew, Boiling in small parallel channels, in: Proceedings of the CEC Conference on Energy Efficiency in Process Technology, Athens, Elsevier Applied Sciences, 1992, Paper No. 22.
6. Wambsganss M.W., France D.M., Jendrzejczyk J.A., and Tran T.N. Boiling heat transfer in a horizontal small-diameter tube. J. Heat Transfer 115 (1993) 963-972
7. Ravigururajan T.S. Impact of channel geometry on two-phase flow heat transfer characteristics of refrigerants in microchannel heat exchangers. J. Heat Transfer 120 (1998) 485-491
8. G.R. Warrier, T. Pan, V.K. Dhir, Heat transfer and pressure drop in narrow rectangular channels, in: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Multiphase Flow, New Orleand, 2001, Paper No. 865.
9. M.E. Steinke, S.G. Kandlikar, Flow boiling and pressure drop in parallel flow microchannels, in: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Microchannels and Minichannels, Rochester, New York, 2003, pp. 567-579.
10. S. Lin, P.A. Kew, Characteristic of two-phase flow and heat transfer in small tubes, in: Proceedings of the 6th UK Conference on Heat Transfer, Edinburgh, 1999, pp. 185-190.
11. T.-H. Yen, N. Kasagi, Y. Suzuki, Forced convective boiling heat transfer in microtubes at low mass and heat fluxes, in: Proceedings Symposium on Compact Heat Exchangers, Grenoble, France, 2002, pp. 401-406.
12. Collier J.G., and Thome J.R. Convective Boiling and Condensation. third ed. (1994), Clarendon Press, Oxford
13. Lockhart R.W., and Martinelli R.C. Proposed correlation of data for isothermal two-phase, two-component flow in pipes. Chem. Eng. Progr. 45 1 (1949) 39-48
14. Chisholm D. The influence of mass velocity on friction pressure gradients during steam-water flow. Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics Convention (1968), Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Bristol Paper 35
15. Bowers M.B., and Mudawar I. High flux boiling in low flow rate, low pressure drop mini-channel heat sinks. Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 37 2 (1994) 321-332
16. Tong W., Bergles A.E., and Jensen M. Pressure drop with highly subcooled flow boiling in small-diameter tubes. Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science 15 (1997) 202-212
17. L. Zhang, J.M. Koo, L. Jiang, M. Asheghi, K.E. Goodson, J.G. Santiago, T.M. Kenny, Measurements and modeling of two-phase flow in microchannels with nearly-constant heat flux boundary conditions, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2000, pp. 129-135.
18. B.K. Kozlov, Forms of flow of gas-liquid, mixtures and their stability limits in vertical tubes, Zh Tekh. Fiz. (Transl. RJ-418, Assn. Tech. Service, East Orange, NJ) 24 (12) (1954) 2285-2288.
19. Taitel Y., Bornea D., and Duckler A.E. Modelling flow pattern transitions for steady upward gas-liquid flow in vertical tubes. AIChE J. 26 3 (1980) 345-354
20. Mishima K., and Ishii M. Flow regime transition criteria for upward two-phase flow in vertical tubes. J. Heat Mass Transfer 27 5 (1984) 723-736
21. Chen J.C. A correlation of boiling heat transfer to saturated fluids in convective flow. Ind. Eng. Chem. Process Des. Dev. 5 (1966) 322-329
22. V.E. Schrock, L.M. Grossman, Forced Convection Boiling Studies, University of California, Institute of Engineering Research, Report, 1959.
23. Shah M.M. Chart correlation for saturated boiling heat transfer: equations and further study. ASHRAE Trans. 82 1 (1982) 185-196
24. Kandlikar S.G. A general correlation for two-phase flow boiling heat transfer coefficient inside horizontal and vertical tubes. J. Heat Transfer 22 (1990) 219-228
25. J. Shuai, Flow boiling heat transfer in narrow vertical channels, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Stuttgart, 2004.
26. Carey V.P. Liquid-Vapour Phase-Change Phenomena (1992), Taylor & Francis