Bubble departure diameter determination for pool boiling on surface with microchannels

Flow Boiling on Micropin Fins Entrenched Inside a Microchannel—Flow Patterns and Bubble Departure Diameter and Bubble Frequency

Flow boiling of HFE 7000 in five parallel microchannels of 222 m hydraulic diameter, each containing a single row of 24 in-line 100 m pin fins, was investigated. High speed photography revealed the dominant flow patterns, namely, the bubbly flow, the multiple flow, and the wavy-annular flow. The interaction of the bubble with the pin fins during nucleate boiling from G 350 kg /m2 s to G 827 kg ...

Pool Boiling Heat Transfer and Bubble Dynamics Over Plain and Enhanced Microchannels

Pool boiling is of interest in high heat flux applications because of its potential for removing large amount of heat resulting from the latent heat of evaporation and little pressure drop penalty for circulating coolant through the system. However, the heat transfer performance of pool boiling systems is not adequate to match the cooling ability provided by enhanced microchannels operating und...

Pool Boiling Heat Transfer Enhancement Through Nanostructures on Silicon Microchannels

Uniform silicon nanowires (SiNW) were successfully fabricated on the top, bottom, and sidewall surfaces of silicon microchannels by using a two-step electroless etching process. Different microchannel patterns with the channel width from 100 to 300 lm were first fabricated in a 10 mm 10 mm silicon chip and then covered by SiNW with an average height of 10–20 lm. The effects of the microchannel ...

Steady State Vapor Bubble in Pool Boiling

Boiling, a dynamic and multiscale process, has been studied for several decades; however, a comprehensive understanding of the process is still lacking. The bubble ebullition cycle, which occurs over millisecond time-span, makes it extremely challenging to study near-surface interfacial characteristics of a single bubble. Here, we create a steady-state vapor bubble that can remain stable for ho...

Prediction of bubble departure in forced convection boiling: A mechanistic