Review on Heat and Fluid Flow in Micro Pin Fin Heat Sinks under Single-phase and Two-phase Flow Conditions

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Mohammadi ◽  
Ali Koşar
1985 ◽  
Vol 107 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Okitsugu Furuya

During operational transients or a hypothetical LOCA (loss of coolant accident) condition, the recirculating coolant of PWR (pressurized water reactor) may flash into steam due to a loss of line pressure. Under such two-phase flow conditions, it is well known that the recirculation pump becomes unable to generate the same head as that of the single-phase flow case. Similar situations also exist in oil well submersible pumps where a fair amount of gas is contained in oil. Based on the one dimensional control volume method, an analytical method has been developed to determine the performance of pumps operating under two-phase flow conditions. The analytical method has incorporated pump geometry, void fraction, flow slippage and flow regime into the basic formula, but neglected the compressibility and condensation effects. During the course of model development, it has been found that the head degradation is mainly caused by higher acceleration on liquid phase and deceleration on gas phase than in the case of single-phase flows. The numerical results for head degradations and torques obtained with the model favorably compared with the air/water two-phase flow test data of Babcock and Wilcox (1/3 scale) and Creare (1/20 scale) pumps.


2019 ◽  
Vol 142 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ammar Zeghloul ◽  
Hiba Bouyahiaoui ◽  
Abdelwahid Azzi ◽  
Abbas H. Hasan ◽  
Abdelsalam Al-sarkhi

Abstract This paper presents an experimental investigation of the pressure drop (DP) through valves in vertical upward flows. Experiments were carried out using a 1¼″ (DN 32) ball and gate valve. Five opening areas have been investigated from fully open to the nearly fully closed valve, using air with a superficial velocity of 0–3.5 m/s and water 0.05–0.91 m/s. These ranges cover single-phase and the bubbly, slug and churn two-phase flow regimes. It was found that for the single-phase flow experiments, the valve coefficient increases with the valve opening and is the same, in both valves, for the openings smaller than 40%. The single-phase pressure drop increases with the liquid flowrate and decreases with the opening area. The two-phase flow pressure drop was found considerably increased by reducing the opening area for both valves. It reaches its maximum values at 20% opening for the ball valve and 19% opening for the gate valve. It was also inferred that at fully opening condition, the two-phase flow multiplier, for both valves, has been found close to unity for most of the tested flow conditions. For 40 and 20% valve openings the two-phase multiplier decreases in the power-law with liquid holdup for the studied flow conditions. Models proposed originally for evaluating the pressure drop through an orifice in single-phase and two-phase flows were also applied and assessed in the present experimental data.


Author(s):  
L. I. Ezekoye ◽  
T. J. Matty ◽  
S. R. Swantner

Relief valves provide overpressure protection of components and systems. To properly size them, one needs to know the fluid conditions upstream and downstream, the physical and thermal properties of the fluids at the postulated relieving conditions, a model that can be used to predict the capacity and the geometry of the inlet and outlet conditions. However, in many applications, it is not uncommon that some of the information needed to properly size relief valves may be missing. For example, there may not be information on the inlet and outlet pipe configuration, which may influence the flow conditions. For single-phase flows, neglecting inlet and outlet piping configurations may have minimal effect on the capacity. However, for fluids that are slightly subcooled with a potential for flashing, the effect may be significant. The problem is magnified by the fact that, unlike single phase flows where the ASME standard provides a method for sizing single phase relief valve capacity, there is no standard model for sizing two-phase flow relief capacity. In this paper, we present the sizing of a relief valve for a slightly subcooled water application with attached piping using the ASME and the OMEGA methods to illustrate the differences in their estimates.


2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyan Meng ◽  
Daoyong Yang

Over the past few decades, due to the special features (i.e., easily produced, large-surface-area-to-volume ratio, and engineered particles with designed surface properties), nanoparticles have not only attracted great attentions from the oil and gas industry but also had various applications from drilling and completion, reservoir characterization, to enhanced oil recovery (EOR). As sensors or EOR agents, thus, fate and behavior of nanoparticles in porous media are essential and need to be investigated thoroughly. Nevertheless, most of the published review papers focus on particle transport in saturated porous media, and all of them are about steady-state flow conditions. So far, no attempts have been extended to systematically review current knowledge about nanoparticle transport in porous media with single-phase and two-phase flow systems under both steady-state and unsteady-state conditions. Accordingly, this review will discuss nanoparticle transport phenomena in porous media with its focus on the filtration mechanisms, the underlying interaction forces, and factors dominating nanoparticle transport behavior in porous media. Finally, mathematical models used to describe nanoparticle transport in porous media for both single-phase flow and two-phase flow under steady-state and transient flow conditions will be summarized, respectively.


Author(s):  
Abel M. Siu-Ho ◽  
Weilin Qu ◽  
Frank Pfefferkorn

The pressure drop and heat transfer characteristics of single-phase and two-phase micro-pin-fin heat sinks were investigated experimentally. Fabricated from 110 copper, the heat sink contained an array of 1950 staggered square micro-pin-fins with 200×200 μm2 cross-section by 670 μm height. The ratios of longitudinal pitch and transverse pitch to pin-fin hydraulic diameter are equal to 2. Deionized water was employed as the cooling liquid. A coolant inlet temperature of 30 °C, and six maximum mass velocities, ranging from 183 to 420 kg/m2s, were tested. The corresponding inlet Reynolds number ranged from 45.9 to 105.9. General hydrodynamic and thermal characteristics of the two flow regimes of single-phase flow and flow boiling were described. The measured temperature distribution was used to evaluate single-phase heat transfer coefficient and Nusselt number. Predictions of the previous friction factor and heat transfer correlations that were developed for low Reynolds number (Re<1000) single-phase flow in short pin-fin arrays were compared to the present micro-pin-fin single-phase pressure drop and Nusselt number data, respectively. The Short et al friction factor correlation and the Kos¸ar et al. heat transfer correlation provided acceptable predictions.


Author(s):  
Weilin Qu ◽  
Seok-Mann Yoon ◽  
Issam Mudawar

Knowledge of flow pattern and flow pattern transitions is essential to the development of reliable predictive tools for pressure drop and heat transfer in two-phase micro-channel heat sinks. In the present study, experiments were conducted with adiabatic nitrogen-water two-phase flow in a rectangular micro-channel having a 0.406 × 2.032 mm cross-section. Superficial velocities of nitrogen and water ranged from 0.08 to 81.92 m/s and 0.04 to 10.24 m/s, respectively. Flow patterns were first identified using high-speed video imaging, and still photos were then taken for representative patterns. Results reveal that the dominant flow patterns are slug and annular, with bubbly flow occurring only occasionally; stratified and churn flow were never observed. A flow pattern map was constructed and compared with previous maps and predictions of flow pattern transition models. Annual flow is identified as the dominant flow pattern for conditions relevant to two-phase micro-channel heat sinks, and forms the basis for development of a theoretical model for both pressure drop and heat transfer in micro-channels. Features unique to two-phase micro-channel flow, such as laminar liquid and gas flows, smooth liquid-gas interface, and strong entrainment and deposition effects are incorporated into the model. The model shows good agreement with experimental data for water-cooled heat sinks.


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