Heat Transfer Characteristics of a Train of Droplets Impinging Over a Hot Surface: From Film Evaporation to Leidenfrost Point

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ganesh Guggilla ◽  
Ramesh Narayanaswamy ◽  
Peter Stephan ◽  
Arvind Pattamatta

Abstract High-performance computing systems are needed in advanced computing services such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. Consequently, the increase in electron chip density results in high heat fluxes and requires good thermal management to maintain the servers. Spray cooling using liquid offers higher heat transfer rates and is efficient when implemented in electronics cooling. Detailed studies of fundamental mechanisms involved in spray cooling, such as single droplet and multiple droplet interactions, are required to enhance the process's knowledge. The present work focuses on studying a train of two FC-72 droplets impinging over a heated surface. Experimental investigation using high-speed photography and infrared thermography is conducted. Simultaneously, numerical simulations using opensource CFD package, OpenFOAM are carried out, emphasizing the significance of contact angle hysteresis. The surface temperature is chosen as a parameter, and different boiling regimes along with Dynamic Leidenfrost point (DLP) for the present impact conditions are identified. Spreading hydrodynamics and heat transfer characteristics of these consecutively impinging droplets till the Leidenfrost temperature, are studied and compared.

Author(s):  
Ganesh Guggilla ◽  
Arvind Pattamatta ◽  
Ramesh Narayanaswamy

Abstract Due to the advancements in computing services such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, high-performance computing systems are needed. Consequently, the increase in electron chip density results in high heat fluxes and required sufficient thermal management to maintain the servers. In recent times, the liquid cooling techniques become prominent over air cooling as it has significant advantages. Spray cooling is one such efficient cooling process which can be implemented in electronics cooling. To enhance the knowledge of the process, detailed studies of fundamental mechanisms involved in spray cooling such as single droplet and multiple droplet interactions are required. The present work focuses on the study of a train of droplets impinging over a heated surface using FC-72 liquid. The surface temperature is chosen as a parameter, and the Dynamic Leidenfrost point (DLP) for the present impact conditions is identified. Spread hydrodynamics and heat transfer characteristics of these consecutively impinging droplets till the Leidenfrost temperature, are studied and compared.


2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jungho Lee ◽  
Jungho Kim ◽  
Kenneth T. Kiger ◽  
Bohumil Horacek

Abstract Heat transfer by phase change is an attractive method of cooling since large amounts of heat can be removed with relatively small temperature differences. Droplet cooling is one method whereby very high heat transfer rates coupled with good temperature uniformity across surfaces can be provided, which is important in microelectronics where even small temperature gradients across the chip can cause component failure. In this study, time and space resolved heat transfer characteristics for a single droplet striking a heated surface were experimentally investigated. The local wall heat flux and temperature measurements were provided by a novel experimental technique in which 96 individually controlled heaters were used to map the heat transfer coefficient contour on the surface. Significant time and space resolved variations in wall heat fluxes were exhibited during boiling and evaporation. The droplet behavior with wall interaction was simultaneously viewed using a high-speed digital video camera. Local heat transfer measurements can provide much needed information regarding the relevant wall heat transfer mechanisms by pinpointing when and where large amounts of heat are removed. This study should result in benchmark data against which numerical calculations can be compared.


Author(s):  
Ryan P. Anderson ◽  
Alfonso Ortega

Understanding the transport mechanisms involved in a single droplet impinging on a heated surface is imperative to the complete understanding of droplet and spray cooling. Evidence in the literature suggests that gas assisted sprays and mist flows are more efficient than sprays consisting only of liquid droplets. There has been few if any fundamental studies on gas-assisted droplets or spray cooling, in which a carrier gas or vapor stream propels the droplet to the target surface. The current work extends previous studies of a droplet impinging on a heated surface conducted by the same group from the single phase regime into the evaporative regime. For both regimes, understanding the transport physics due to the heat transfer from the heated surface to the droplet and then by convection and evaporation to the airflow is of fundamental importance. High-speed photography was used to capture the spreading process and yielded results that correlated well with previously published isothermal and single-phase results. The heat transfer was measured with a fitting approach by which the instantaneous temperature profile was matched to an analytic solution to determine the instantaneous value of the centerline heat transfer coefficient. A very large increase in the heat dissipation was observed when compared to previously published single-phase results. Heat transfer was optimized at Reynolds numbers that produced an optimally thin liquid film and high heat and mass transfer coefficients on the surface of the film.


Volume 3 ◽  
2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ratnesh K. Sharma ◽  
Cullen E. Bash ◽  
Chandrakant D. Patel

Increases in microprocessor power density along with an accompanying spatial variation in power density has been well documented in recent years. These combined factors pose a severe challenge for the provisioning of cooling resources at the microprocessor level. The use of thermal inkjet technology to precisely supply coolant onto the surface of a microprocessor has the potential to address this problem in a chip-scale form factor. By providing coolant when and where it is needed on the surface of a chip or package, very high critical heat fluxes can be obtained in an energy efficient manner in a minimum of physical space. In this paper, the unique heat transfer characteristics of inkjet assisted spray cooling of a heated surface are investigated. Sprays of water are used to cool heated surfaces ranging from 281mm2 to 35mm2. Several experiments are conducted at different nozzle-to-surface distances to measure critical heat flux (CHF) at different flow rates and firing frequencies. The impact of volumetric flux variation on CHF is studied. CHF data, measured over broad range of operating conditions is correlated to volumetric flux and liquid properties. Flow visualization studies are also conducted to understand the vapor-liquid interaction at the heater surface and the intermediate region. Jet breakup length studies are carried out to understand the propagation of Rayleigh instabilities in the spray jets and, subsequent, formation of liquid drops. CHF data combined with fluid flow studies have been used to optimize the nozzle-to-surface clearance. Results obtained from these experiments are invaluable for the design of micro scale spray cooling devices for chips.


Metals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yazhu Zhang ◽  
Zhi Wen ◽  
Zengwu Zhao ◽  
Chunbao Bi ◽  
Yaxiang Guo ◽  
...  

Spray cooling is a key technology in the continuous casting process and has a marked influence on the product quality. In order to obtain the heat transfer characteristics, which are closer to the actual continuous casting to serve the design, prediction and simulation, we created an experimental laboratory setup to investigate heat transfer characteristics of air mist spray cooling during the continuous casting secondary cooling process. A 200-mm thick sample of carbon steel was heated above 1000 °C, and then cooled in a water flux range of 0.84 to 3.0 L/(m2∙s). Determination of the boundary conditions involved experimental work comprising an evaluation of the thermal history and the heat flux and heat transfer coefficient (HTC) at the casting surface using inverse heat conduction numerical schemes. The results show that the heat fluxes were characterized via boiling curves that were functions of the slab surface temperatures. The heat flux was determined to be 2.9 × 105 W/m2 in the range of 1100 to 800 °C with a water flux of 2.1 L/(m2∙s). The critical heat flux increased with the increase of water flux. The HTC was close to a linear function of water flux. We also obtained the relation between the HTC and the water flux in the transition boiling region for surface temperatures of 850 to 950 °C.


2011 ◽  
Vol 133 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Hari Krishna ◽  
Harish Ganapathy ◽  
G. Sateesh ◽  
Sarit K. Das

Nanofluids, solid-liquid suspensions with solid particles of size of the order of few nanometers, have created interest in many researchers because of their enhancement in thermal conductivity and convective heat transfer characteristics. Many studies have been done on the pool boiling characteristics of nanofluids, most of which have been with nanofluids containing oxide nanoparticles owing to the ease in their preparation. Deterioration in boiling heat transfer was observed in some studies. Metallic nanofluids having metal nanoparticles, which are known for their good heat transfer characteristics in bulk regime, reported drastic enhancement in thermal conductivity. The present paper investigates into the pool boiling characteristics of metallic nanofluids, in particular of Cu-H2O nanofluids, on flat copper heater surface. The results indicate that at comparatively low heat fluxes, there is deterioration in boiling heat transfer with very low particle volume fraction of 0.01%, and it increases with volume fraction and shows enhancement with 0.1%. However, the behavior is the other way around at high heat fluxes. The enhancement at low heat fluxes is due to the fact that the effect of formation of thin sorption layer of nanoparticles on heater surface, which causes deterioration by trapping the nucleation sites, is overshadowed by the increase in microlayer evaporation, which is due to enhancement in thermal conductivity. Same trend has been observed with variation in the surface roughness of the heater as well.


Author(s):  
T. Netz ◽  
R. Shalem ◽  
J. Aharon ◽  
G. Ziskind ◽  
R. Letan

In the present study, incipient flow boiling of water is studied experimentally in a square-cross-section vertical channel. Water, preheated to 60–80 degrees Celsius, flows upwards. The channel has an electrically heated wall, where the heat fluxes can be as high as above one megawatt per square meter. The experiment is repeated for different water flow rates, and the maximum Reynolds number reached in the present study is 27,300. Boiling is observed and recorded using a high-speed digital video camera. The temperature field on the heated surface is measured with an infrared camera and a software is used to obtain quantitative temperature data. Thus, the recorded boiling images are analyzed in conjunction with the detailed temperature field. The dependence of incipient boiling on the flow and heat transfer parameters is established. For a flat wall, the results for various velocities and subcooling conditions agree well with the existing literature. Furthermore, three different wavy heated surfaces are explored, having the same pitch of 4mm but different amplitudes of 0.25mm, 0.5mm and 0.75mm. The effect of surface waviness on single-phase heat transfer and boiling incipience is shown. The differences in boiling incipience on various surfaces are elucidated, and the effect of wave amplitude on the results is discussed.


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