Seed bubbles trigger boiling heat transfer in silicon microchannels

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 341-359

  Liu, Guohua ^a   Xu, Jinliang ^a   Yang, Yongping ^b  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION   (China)

^b NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Boiling incipience; Microchannel; Seed bubble; Thermal non equilibrium

Indexed keywords

BOILING HEAT TRANSFER; BOILING INCIPIENCE; BUBBLE FREQUENCY; DATA RANGES; FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER; FLOW INSTABILITIES; GLASS COVERS; HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT; HEAT TRANSFER SYSTEMS; HEATING SURFACES; HYDRAULIC DIAMETER; KEY FACTORS; MAXIMUM DEGREE; MICRO-HEATER ARRAY; MICROHEATER; NON EQUILIBRIUM; PARALLEL MICROCHANNELS; PULSE VOLTAGE; SATURATION VALUES; SILICON CHIP; SILICON MICROCHANNELS; SILICON SUBSTRATES; SMOOTH CHANNEL; TEST SECTIONS; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUMS; THERMAL NON-EQUILIBRIUM; THIN PLATINUM FILMS; TIME SEQUENCES; TRIANGULAR MICROCHANNELS; TWO PHASIS; VAPOR PHASIS;

ACETONE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CHANNEL FLOW; FLOW PATTERNS; GLASS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEATING; HEATING EQUIPMENT; LIQUIDS; PLATINUM; SEED; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VAPORS;

MICROCHANNELS;

EID: 77649232352     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-009-0465-y     Document Type: Article

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