Study of Thermal Bubble Motion in Microchannel
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چکیده
The micro capillary pumped loop system (MCPL) is a highly efficient device for heat transfer because the main driving force is a result of thermo-bubbles in micro-channel. In this study, the scaling effect with respect to the dimensional geometry of MCPL was studied for improving the heat transfer performance. The results showed that when a larger heating power was provided by microheater, the growing rate of thermal bubble was faster. Generally speaking, injecting a larger amount of working fluids resulted in faster thermo bubble motion. When the size of channel was scaled down, the nucleation of thermal bubble occurred easily and a positive performance of heat transfer was expected. These findings will be useful to the further optimal design of MCPL.
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