Kenneth M. Armijo, Van P. Carey^*

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.1, No.2, pp. 1-6, 2010, DOI:10.5098/hmt.v1.2.3003

Abstract This paper investigates the impact of Marangoni phenomena for low concentrations of 2-propanol/water and methanol/water mixtures. In real systems the addition of small levels of surface-active contaminants can affect the surface tension of the liquid-vapor interface and thermodynamic conditions in this region. Analysis was performed for three widely accepted binary mixture correlations to predict heat flux and superheat values for subatmospheric experimental data using bulk fluid and film thermodynamic properties. Due to the non-ideal nature of these alcohol/water mixtures, this study also employs an average pseudo single-component (PSC) coefficient in place of an ideal heat transfer coefficient (HTC) to improve… More >

Yun Whan Na^* , J. N. Chung^†

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.11, pp. 1-14, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.11.36

Abstract Flow instabilities of convective two-phase boiling in a trapezoidal microchannel were investigated. using a three-dimensional numerical model. Parameters such as wall temperature and inlet pressure that characterize the instability phenomena of flow boiling with periodic flow patterns were studied at different channel wall heat fluxes and flow mass fluxes. Results were obtained for various wall heat flux levels and mass flow rates. The numerical results showed that large amplitude and short period oscillations for wall temperature and inlet pressure fluctuations are major characteristics of flow instability. The wall temperature fluctuations are mainly initiated by the transition from bubbly to slug… More >

Wenlei Lian, Zijian Sun, Taoyi Han, Yimin Xuan^*

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.14, pp. 1-6, 2020, DOI:10.5098/hmt.14.10

Abstract An experimental facility is developed to investigate the characteristics of the nucleate boiling heat transfer in a rotating water film. The High speed photography technique is used to visualize the flow field of the rotating water film. Along with the bubble photographs, the centrifugal acceleration, heat flux into the film, and the heat transfer coefficient are calculated to learn the heat transfer characteristics of the water film. It is found that the boiling heat transfer coefficient decreases with the increment of heat flux. The heat transfer coefficient increases with acceleration increasing from 20g to 60g, but show no obvious increase… More >

Shuang Cao^a,*, Hui Yang^a, Luxing Zhao^a, Tao Wang^a, Jian Xie^b,†

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.17, pp. 1-16, 2021, DOI:10.5098/hmt.17.17

Abstract Flow boiling heat transfer is an effective way to fulfill the energy transfer. The wettability of boiling surface influences the liquid spreading ability and the growth, departure, and release frequency of bubbles, which determines the heat transfer performance. According to the wettability and combination forms, boiling surface are classified into weak wetting surface, strong wetting surface, and heterogeneous wetting surface. Fabricating by physical, chemical method or coating the original surface with a layer of low surface energy, the weak wetting surface has more effective activation point and nucleation center density to improve heat transfer performance at low heat flux. The… More >

Ningbo Guo, Xianming Gao^*, Duanling Li, Jixing Zhang, Penghui Yin, Mengyi Hua

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.136, No.3, pp. 3061-3082, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.026657

Abstract Computational fluid dynamics was used and a numerical simulation analysis of boiling heat transfer in microchannels with three depths and three cross-sectional profiles was conducted. The heat transfer coefficient and bubble generation process of three microchannel structures with a width of 80 μm and a depth of 40, 60, and 80 μm were compared during the boiling process, and the factors influencing bubble generation were studied. A visual test bench was built, and test substrates of different sizes were prepared using a micro-nano laser. During the test, the behavior characteristics of the bubbles on the boiling surface and the temperature… More >

Cong Qi^*, Yuxing Wang, Zi Ding, Jianglin Tu, Mengxin Zhu

Energy Engineering, Vol.118, No.4, pp. 825-852, 2021, DOI:10.32604/EE.2021.014806

Abstract Boiling heat transfer is a mode using the phase change of working medium to strengthen the heat exchange due to its good heat exchange capability, and it is widely used in heat exchange engineering. Nanofluids have been used in the direction of enhanced heat transfer for their superior thermophysical property. The wetting, spreading and ripple phenomena of superhydrophobic surfaces widely exist in nature and daily life. It has great application value for engineering technology. In this article, the boiling heat exchange characteristics of nanofluids on superhydrophobic surface are numerically studied. It was found that with the increase of superheating degree,… More >

Xinyu You¹, Jionghui Liu¹, Nan Hua^1,3, Ji Wang⁵, Rongji Xu^1,4, Guangxu Yu², Huasheng Wang^1,*

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.22, No.3, pp. 143-143, 2019, DOI:10.32604/icces.2019.04732

Abstract The paper reports preliminary measurement results for flow boiling heat transfer of refrigerant R1233zd in parallel horizontal microchannels. The aluminum test section consists of two blocks and has 10 parallel channels with 1.0 mm in width, 1.5 mm in height and 440 mm in length. Five small thermocouple holes with diameter 0.6 mm and depth 20 mm were drilled at 10 locations along the channel on the two aluminum blocks, respectively. Local heat flux and channel surface temperature along the channel were obtained using the inverse heat conduction method [1] based on temperatures accurately measured by 100 thermocouples. Local saturation… More >