Identification of Pool Boiling Heat Transfer Mechanisms From a Wire Immersed in Saturated FC-72 Using a Single-Photo/LDA Method

1996 ◽  
Vol 118 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. N. Ammerman ◽  
S. M. You ◽  
Y. S. Hong

A unique method to determine the vapor volumetric flow rate above a heated wire utilizing a single photograph and laser-Doppler anemometry is developed and discussed. The volumetric flow rate is combined with additional analyses to determine the overall contributions to the total heat flux from four nucleate boiling heat transfer mechanisms (latent heat, natural convection, Marangoni flow, and microconvection). This method is applied to a 75-μm wire immersed in a saturated, highly wetting liquid (FC-72). Latent heat is identified as the dominant mechanism in the fully developed nucleate boiling regime.

1996 ◽  
Vol 118 (2) ◽  
pp. 429-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. N. Ammerman ◽  
S. M. You

In the present investigation, boiling heat transfer coefficients are measured for an electrically heated 390-μm-dia, platinum wire immersed in saturated water, and in water mixed with three different concentrations of sodium dodecyl sulfate (an anionic surfactant). The addition of a surfactant to water is known to enhance boiling heat transfer. A recently developed photographic/laser-Doppler anemometry measurement technique is used to quantify the vapor volumetric flow rate departing from the wire during the boiling process. The volumetric flow rate data are used to calculate the latent heat and, indirectly, the convection heat transfer mechanisms that constitute the nucleate boiling heat flux. Comparisons are made to determine how the heat transfer mechanisms are affected by the surfactant addition, and thus, which mechanism promotes boiling enhancement. The present data are also compared with similar data taken for a 75-μm-dia wire immersed in saturated FC-72 (a highly wetting liquid) to provide increased insight into the nature of the boiling heat transfer mechanisms.


Author(s):  
Lu Zhang ◽  
David M. Christopher

Bubbles have been observed moving along heated wires during subcooled nucleate boiling as they are driven by Marangoni convection around the bubbles. This paper presents more detailed observations of the vapor bubble interactions and moving bubble behavior during subcooled nucleate boiling on a heated microwire. The experimental results show that moving bubbles coalesce or rebound from other bubbles and that bubbles hop on the wire. These observations show how bubble interactions significantly affect nucleate boiling heat transfer rates and how Marangoni flow plays an important role in microscale nucleate boiling heat transfer mechanisms.


Author(s):  
Boming Yu

In the past three decades, fractal geometry and technique have received considerable attention due to its wide applications in sciences and technologies such as in physics, mathematics, geophysics, oil recovery, material science and engineering, flow and heat and mass transfer in porous media etc. The fractal geometry and technique may become particularly powerful when they are applied to deal with random and disordered media such as porous media, nanofluids, nucleate boiling heat transfer. In this paper, a summary of recent advances is presented in the areas of heat and mass transfer in fractal media by fractal geometry technique. The present overview includes a brief summary of the fractal geometry technique applied in the areas of heat and mass transfer; thermal conductivities of porous media and nanofluids; nucleate boiling heat transfer. A few comments are made with respect to the theoretical studies that should be made in the future.


Author(s):  
Chien-Yuh Yang ◽  
Chien-Fu Liu

Numerous researches have been developed for pool boiling on microporous coated surface in the past decade. The nucleate boiling heat transfer was found to be increased by up to 4.5 times than that on uncoated surface. Recently, the two-phase micro heat exchangers have been considered for high flux electronic devices cooling. The enhancement techniques for improving the nucleate boiling heat transfer performance in the micro heat exchangers have gotten more importance. Previous studies of microporous coatings, however, have been restricted to boiling in unconfined space. No studies have been made on the feasibility of using microporous coatings for enhancing boiling in confined spaces. This study provides an experimental observation of the vapor generation and leaving processes on microporous coatings surface in a 1-mm confined space. It would be helpful for understanding the mechanism of boiling heat transfer and improving the design of two-phase micro heat exchangers. Aluminum particles of average diameter 20 μm were mixed with a binder and a carrier to develop a 150 μm thickness boiling enhancement paint on a 3.0 cm by 3.0 cm copper heating surface. The heating surface was covered by a thin glass plate with a 1 mm spacer to form a 1 mm vertical narrow space for the test section. The boiling phenomenon was recorded by a high speed camera. In addition to the three boiling regimes observed by Bonjour and Lallemand [1], i.e., isolated deformed bubbles, coalesced bubbles and partial dryout at low, moderate and high heat fluxes respectively in unconfined space, a suction and blowing process was observed at the highest heat flux condition. Owing to the space confinement, liquid was sucked and vapor was expelled periodically during the bubble generation process. This mechanism significantly enhanced the boiling heat transfer performance in confined space.


2012 ◽  
Vol 550-553 ◽  
pp. 2913-2916 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Liang Tao ◽  
Xin Liang Wang ◽  
Pei Hua Shi ◽  
Xiao Ping Shi

In this paper, a new porous coating was formed directly on the surface of titanium metal via anodic oxidation. And by the SEM, the morphology of the coating, which is composed of well-ordered perpendicular nanotubes, was characterized. Moreover, taking deionized water as the test fluid, a visualization study of the coating on its pool boiling heat transfer performance was made. The results demonstrated that compared with the smooth surface, the nucleate boiling heat transfer coefficient can increase 3 times while the nucleate boiling super heat was reduced 30%.


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