Experimental studies of adiabatic flow boiling in fractal-like branching microchannels

Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-10

  Daniels, Brian J ^a   Liburdy, James A ^a   Pence, Deborah V ^a  

^a Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiabatic pressure drop; Boiling; Microchannel branching network; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC FLOW; ADIABATIC PRESSURE DROP; BOILING; CHANNEL HEIGHT; CHANNEL LENGTH; CHANNEL WIDTHS; DEEP REACTIVE ION ETCHED; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLOW GEOMETRIES; FLOW LENGTH; FLOW NETWORK; FRACTAL-LIKE BRANCHING; INLET SUBCOOLING; MICROCHANNEL NETWORK; NUMERICAL MODEL SIMULATIONS; PRESSURE LOSS; SEPARATED FLOWS; SILICON DISKS; TEST CONDITION; TIME-AVERAGED; WIDTH RATIO;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); FRACTALS; MICROCHANNELS; PRESSURE DROP; TWO PHASE FLOW; VISUALIZATION; VOID FRACTION;

INLET FLOW;

EID: 78049424263     PISSN: 08941777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2010.07.016     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Whitesel H.A. Capillary two-phase flow, Part I. Refrig. Eng. 1957, 65:42-44.
2. Whitesel H.A. Capillary two-phase flow, Part II. Refrig. Eng. 1957, 65:35-40.
3. Mikol E.P. Adiabatic single and two-phase flow in small bore tubes. ASHRAE J. 1963, 5:75-86.
4. Mikol E.P., Dudley J.C. A visual and photographic study of the inception of vaporization in adiabatic flow. Trans. ASME 1964, 7:257-264.
5. Meyer J.J., Dunn W.E. New insights into the behavior of the metastable region of an operating capillary tube. Int. J. Heat., Ventilating, Air-Conditioning Refrig. Res. 1998, 4:105-115.
6. Bittle R.R., Carter J.A., Oliver J.V. Extended insight into the metastable liquid region behavior in an adiabatic capillary tube. ASHRAE Trans. 2001, 107:281-297.
7. Bittle R.R., Pate M.B. A theoretical model for predicting capillary tube performance with alternative refrigerants. ASHRAE Trans. 1996, 102:52-64.
8. Wong T.N., Ooi K.T. Refrigerant flow in capillary tube: An assessment of the twophase viscosity correlations on model prediction. Int. Commun. Heat Mass Trans. 1995, 22:595-604.
9. Dukler A.E., Wicks M., Cleveland R.G. Frictional pressure drop in two-phase flow: a comparison of existing correlations for pressure loss and holdup. AIChE J. 1964, 10:38-43.
10. Lackme C. Incompleteness of the flashing of a supersaturated liquid and sonic ejection of the produced phases. Int. J. Multiphase Flow 1979, 5:131-141.
11. Kuehl S.J., Goldschmidt V.W. Modeling of steady flows of R-22 through capillary tubes. ASHRAE Trans. 1991, 97:139-148.
12. Melo C., Neto C.B., Ferreria R.T.S. Empirical correlations for the modeling of R-134 a flow through adiabatic capillary tubes. ASHRAE Trans. 1999, 105:51-59.
13. McAdams W.H., Woods W.K., Heroman L.C.J. Vaporization inside horizontal tubes - II benzene-oil mixtures. Trans. ASME 1942, 64:193-200.
14. Cicchitti A. Two phase cooling experiments - pressure drop, heat transfer, and burnout measurements. Energia Nucl. 1960, 7:407-425.
15. Pence D.V. Reduced pumping power and wall temperature in microchannel heat sinks with fractal-like branching channel networks. Microscale Thermophys. Eng. 2002, 6:319-330.
16. Daniels B.J., Liburdy J.A., Pence D.V. Adiabatic Flow Boiling in Fractal-like Microchannels. Heat Trans. Eng. 2007, 28:817-825.
17. B.J. Daniels, J.A. Liburdy, D.V. Pence, Predictions of flow boiling in fractal-like branching channels, ASME2005-82484, IMECE2005, Orlando, Fla, 2005.
18. Alharbi A.Y., Pence D.V., Cullion R.N. Thermal characteristics in micro-scale fractal-like branching channels. J. Heat Trans. 2004, 126(5):744-752.
19. Alharbi A.Y., Pence D.V., Cullion R.N. Fluid Flow through microscale fractal-like branching channel networks. J. Fluids Eng. 2003, 125(6):1051-1057.
20. D.V. Pence, K. Enfield, Inherent benefits in microscale fractal-like devices for enhanced transport phenomena, in: M. Collins, C.A. Brebbia (Eds.), Design and Nature, WIT Press, Southhampton, UK; 2004, pp. 317-328.
21. Chisholm D., Laird A.D.K. Two-Phase flow in rough tubes. Trans. ASME 1958, 1(2):276-286.
22. Chisholm D. Friction pressure gradient during the flow of boiling water. Eng. Boiler House Rev. 1963, 78:287-289.
23. Chisholm D. A theoretical basis for the Lockhart-Martinelli correlation for two-phase flow. Int. J. Heat Mass Trans. 1967, 10:1767-1778.
24. Collier J.G. Convective Boiling and Condensation 1981, McGraw-Hill, New York. Second ed.
25. Shah R.K. A correlation for laminar hydrodynamic entry length solutions for circular and noncircular ducts. J. Fluids Eng. Trans. ASME 1978, 100:177-179.
26. Mishima K., Hibiki T., Nishihara H. Some characteristics of gas-liquid flow in narrow rectangular ducts. Int. J. Multiphase Flow 1993, 19:115-1124.
27. Mishima K., Hibiki T. Some characteristics of air-water two-phase flow in small diameter vertical tubes. Int. J. Multiphase Flow 1996, 22:703-712.
28. Lee H.J., Lee S.Y. Pressure drop correlations for two-phase flow within horizontal rectangular channels with small heights. Int. J. Multiphase Flow 2001, 27:783-796.
29. Qu W., Mudawar I. Measurement and prediction of pressure drop in two-phase micro-channel heat sinks. Int. J. Heat Mass Trans. 2003, 46:2737-2753.
30. Qu W., Mudawar I. Flow boiling heat transfer in two-phase micro-channel heat sinks - II. Annular two-phase flow model. Int. J. Heat Mass Trans. 2003, 46:2773-2784.
31. P.M.Y. Chung, M. Kawaji, A. Kawahara, Y. Shibata, Two-phase flow through square and circular microchannels - effect of channel geometry, in: 4th ASME-JSME Joint Fluids Eng Conf. Honolulu, HI, 2003.
32. Chung P.M.Y., Kawaji M. The effect of channel diameter on adiabatic two-phase flow characteristics in microchannels. Int. J. Multiphase Flow 2004, 30:735-761.
33. Armand A.A. The resistance during the movement of a two-phase system in horizontal pipes. Izvestiya Vsesoyuznogo Teplotekhnicheskogo Instituta (A.E.R.E. Trans. 828) 1946, 1:16-23.
34. Zivi S.M. Estimation of steady-state steam void-fraction by means of the principle of minimum entropy production. J. Heat Trans. 1964, 86:247-252.
35. Irvine T.F., Liley P.E. Steam and Gas Tables with Computer Equations 1984, Academic Press, New York.
36. Blevins R.D. Applied Fluid Dynamics Handbook 1984, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co, New York, NY.
37. Qu W., Mudawar I. Transport Phenomena in Two-phase Micro-channel Heat Sinks. J Electron Packaging 2004, 126:213-224.
38. Kosar A., Kuo C.J., Peles Y. Suppression of boiling flow oscillations in parallel microchannels by inlet restrictors. J. Heat Trans. 2006, 128:251-260.
39. Cullion R., Pence D.V., Liburdy J.A. Void fraction variations in a fractal-like branching microchannel network. Heat Trans. Eng. 2007, 128(10):806-816.
40. M.E. Steinke, S.G. Kandlikar, Flow boiling and pressure drop in parallel flow microchannels, in: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Microchannels and Minichannels, Rochester, NY, 2003, pp. 567-579.