CFD simulation of upward subcooled boiling flow of refrigerant-113 using the two-fluid model

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 2508-2517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erfeng Chen ◽  
Yanzhong Li ◽  
Xianghua Cheng
2005 ◽  
Vol 127 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Y. Tu ◽  
G. H. Yeoh ◽  
G.-C. Park ◽  
M.-O. Kim

The capability of using the population balance approach combined with a three-dimensional two-fluid model for predicting subcooled boiling flow is investigated. Experiments were conducted to study the local flow characteristics of subcooled boiling flow and to provide measured local two-phase flow parameters. Calculations were performed using the newly developed population balance boiling model to study the effects of various factors on numerical predication of local two-phase flow parameters in the subcooled boiling regime. Comparison of model predictions against local measurements was made for the radial distribution of the bubble Sauter diameter and void fraction covering a range of different mass and heat fluxes and inlet subcooling temperatures. Additional comparison using recent active nucleation site density models and empirical relationships to determine the local bubble diameter adopted by other researchers was also investigated. Overall, good agreement was achieved between predictions and measurements using the newly formulated population balance approach based on the modified MUSIG (multiple-size-group) model for subcooled boiling and two-fluid model.


1986 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. C. Dykhuizen ◽  
R. P. Roy ◽  
S. P. Kalra

A linear analysis of dynamic instability in boiling flow systems has been carried out in the time domain. An unequal velocity, unequal temperature two-fluid model description of boiling flow is used. Instability threshold results of the density-wave oscillation type obtained have been compared with experimental data from Refrigerant-113 and water systems with satisfactory agreement.


Author(s):  
Tingting Ren ◽  
Changqi Yan ◽  
Meiyue Yan ◽  
Shengzhi Yu

Two-fluid model is a common method to simulate the subcooled flow boiling heat transfer, in which the wall boiling model is mainly used for the partition of wall heat flux and the mass transfer between two phases on the wall. The model determines the amount of vapor phase and predicts the cross-sectional void fraction in the channel, nucleate site density and bubble departure diameter play an important role in the accurate prediction of wall boiling model. Eulerian two-fluid model coupled with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) wall boiling model is employed to simulate the heat transfer characteristics and boiling phenomena in vertical narrow rectangular channels by using FLUENT code. Based on the experimental data of subcooled boiling in vertical narrow rectangular channel, different combinations of nucleate site density and bubble departure diameter correlations are used to calculate under different conditions of heat flux and inlet subcooling. Comparing the calculated heat transfer coefficients along the vertical height with experimental results, it can be found that these two parameters have a significant effect on the subcooled boiling heat transfer in narrow rectangular channels. Different parameter combinations lead to differences in wall heat flux distribution, different heat flux and inlet subcooling also have different effects on these models, which eventually lead to different evaporative heat flux, thus affecting the prediction of void fraction.


2009 ◽  
Vol 131 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. K. Das ◽  
P. K. Das ◽  
J. R. Thome

The two fluid model is used to simulate upward gas-liquid bubbly flow through a vertical conduit. Coalescence and breakup of bubbles have been accounted for by embedding the population balance technique in the two fluid model. The simulation enables one to track the axial development of the voidage pattern and the distribution of the bubbles. Thereby it has been possible to propose a new criterion for the transition from bubbly to slug flow regime. The transition criteria depend on (i) the breakage and coalescence frequency, (ii) the bubble volume count below and above the bubble size introduced at the inlet, and (iii) the bubble count histogram. The prediction based on the present criteria exhibits excellent agreement with the experimental data. It has also been possible to simulate the transition from bubbly to dispersed bubbly flow at a high liquid flow rate using the same model.


2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bosˇtjan Koncˇar ◽  
Ivo Kljenak ◽  
Borut Mavko

Subcooled boiling flow was simulated by combining the two-fluid model of the CFX-4.4 code and a Lagrangian bubble-tracking model. At present, both models are coupled “off-line” via the local bubble Sauter diameter. The two-fluid model simulation with the CFX-4.4 code provides local values of turbulent kinetic energy field of the liquid phase, which is used as an input for the bubble-tracking model. In the bubble-tracking model, vapour is distributed in the liquid in the form of individually tracked bubbles. The result of the Lagrangian simulation is a non-homogeneous distribution of local Sauter diameter, which is used in the two-fluid model to predict the interfacial forces and interfacial transfer rates of mass and heat transfer. The coupled approach requires a few iterations to obtain a converged solution. The results of the proposed approach were validated against boiling flow experiments from the literature. A good agreement between measured and calculated radial profiles of void fraction and bubble diameter was obtained.


Author(s):  
Deoras Prabhudharwadkar ◽  
Martin A. Lopez-de-Bertodano ◽  
Takashi Hibiki ◽  
John R. Buchanan

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