Flow boiling in microchannels: Fundamentals and applications

Flow Boiling Heat Transfer in Microchannels

Flow Patterns During Convective Boiling in Microchannels

Nucleation characteristics and stability considerations during flow boiling in microchannels

Flow boiling in microchannels and minichannels has received considerable attention in the past decade. The interest stems from the possibility of achieving the extremely high heat fluxes, over 1 kW/cm, needed for future generation electronics cooling application. The attention has been focused on obtaining experimental heat transfer and pressure drop data, but the fundamental aspects of nucleat...

Fundamental issues related to flow boiling in minichannels and microchannels

Flow boiling in small hydraulic diameter channels is becoming increasingly important in many diverse applications. The previous studies addressing the effects of the channel size on the flow patterns, and heat transfer and pressure drop performance are reviewed in the present paper. The fundamental questions related to the presence of nucleate boiling and characteristics of flow boiling in micr...

Surface Roughness Effects on Flow Boiling in Microchannels