scholarly journals Bubble Departure Diameter Prediction Uncertainty

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Matkovič ◽  
Boštjan Končar
Keyword(s):  
Prediction Accuracy ◽  
Buoyancy Force ◽  
Lift Force ◽  
Bubble Dynamics ◽  
Flow Boiling ◽  
Surface Tension Force ◽  
Experimental Accuracy ◽  
Mechanistic Modelling ◽  
Boiling Process ◽  
Heat Partitioning

This paper presents quality assessment of a mechanistic modelling for bubble departure diameter prediction during pool boiling condition. In contrast to flow boiling process only buoyancy force with opposing surface tension force was considered as the responsible mechanisms for bubble departure. Indeed, inertia from the fluid flow around the bubble and the growth force, which describes momentum change due to the evaporation at the bubble base and condensation at the top of the bubble, were all neglected. Besides, shear lift force and quasi-steady drag force as the dominant inertia driven forces were also neglected in the assessment. Rather than trying to model bubble dynamics as precise as possible by properly addressing all the relevant mechanisms available, the work focuses on prediction accuracy of such approach. It has been shown that inlet boundary conditions with realistic experimental accuracy may lead to a significant uncertainty in the prediction of bubble departure diameter, which is intrinsically connected to the uncertainty of most heat partitioning and CHF models.

scholarly journals Predicting Critical Heat Flux With Multiphase CFD: 4 Years in the Making

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilio Baglietto ◽  
Etienne Demarly ◽  
Ravikishore Kommajosyula
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Critical Heat Flux ◽  
Bubble Dynamics ◽  
Flow Boiling ◽  
Heated Surface ◽  
Force Balance ◽  
Modeling Framework ◽  
Lift Off ◽  
Limiting Condition

Advancement in the experimental techniques have brought new insights into the microscale boiling phenomena, and provide the base for a new physical interpretation of flow boiling heat transfer. A new modeling framework in Computational Fluid Dynamics has been assembled at MIT, and aims at introducing all necessary mechanisms, and explicitly tracks: (1) the size and dynamics of the bubbles on the surface; (2) the amount of microlayer and dry area under each bubble; (3) the amount of surface area influenced by sliding bubbles; (4) the quenching of the boiling surface following a bubble departure and (5) the statistical bubble interaction on the surface. The preliminary assessment of the new framework is used to further extend the portability of the model through an improved formulation of the force balance models for bubble departure and lift-off. Starting from this improved representation at the wall, the work concentrates on the bubble dynamics and dry spot quantification on the heated surface, which governs the Critical Heat Flux (CHF) limit. A new proposition is brought forward, where Critical Heat Flux is a natural limiting condition for the heat flux partitioning on the boiling surface. The first principle based CHF is qualitatively demonstrated, and has the potential to deliver a radically new simulation technique to support the design of advanced heat transfer systems.

Observation and modelling of bubble dynamics in isolated bubble regime in subcooled flow boiling

2018 ◽  
Vol 335 ◽  
pp. 400-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomio Okawa ◽  
Kazuhiro Kaiho ◽  
Shintaro Sakamoto ◽  
Koji Enoki
Keyword(s):  
Bubble Dynamics ◽  
Flow Boiling ◽  
Subcooled Flow Boiling ◽  
Subcooled Flow ◽  
Bubble Regime

Development of Bubble Departure Diameter Model Based on Force Analysis

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ye Tian ◽  
Wei Huang ◽  
Pengfei Li ◽  
Simin Cao ◽  
Yan Sun
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Experimental Data ◽  
Drag Force ◽  
Bubble Dynamics ◽  
Hydrodynamic Pressure ◽  
Surface Tension Force ◽  
Force Analysis ◽  
Pressure Force ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Unsteady Drag Force

Bubble departure diameter has significant effect on bubble dynamics and heat transfer in boiling system, and it is difficult to be measured in a boiling system. Therefore, a method to predict bubble departure diameter is necessary to study of bubble dynamics and heat transfer in boiling system. A new theoretical model based on force analysis is proposed for the prediction of bubble departure diameter in vertical boiling system in this paper. Surface tension force, unsteady drag force, quasi-steady drag force, shear lift force, buoyancy force, hydrodynamic pressure force and contact pressure force are taken into account to build the model. Chen’s experimental data is used to validate the model, the averaged relative deviation between the predict results of the model and the experimental data is less than ±14.8%.

Experimental Evaluation of Pressure Drop Elements and Fabricated Nucleation Sites for Stabilizing Flow Boiling in Minichannels and Microchannels

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satish G. Kandlikar ◽  
Daniel A. Willistein ◽  
John Borrelli
Keyword(s):  
Pressure Drop ◽  
Experimental Evaluation ◽  
Flow Boiling ◽  
Superheated Liquid ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
Vapor Bubbles ◽  
Liquid Environment ◽  
Nucleation Sites ◽  
Boiling Process ◽  
Flow Configurations

The flow boiling process suffers from severe instabilities induced due to nucleation of vapor bubbles in a minichannel or a microchannel in a superheated liquid environment. In an effort to improve the flow boiling stability, several modifications are introduced and experiments are performed on 1054 × 197 μm microchannels with water as the working fluid. The cavity sizes and local liquid and wall conditions required at the onset of nucleation are analyzed. The effects of an inlet pressure restrictor and fabricated nucleation sites are evaluated as a means of stabilizing the flow boiling process and avoiding the backflow phenomena. The results are compared with the unrestricted flow configurations in smooth channels.

Flow Boiling in a Parallel Strip Fin Heat Sink With Nonuniform Heat Flux Conditions

2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kexian Ren ◽  
Ze Miao ◽  
Bo Yang ◽  
Tongzhi Yang ◽  
Weixing Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
Heat Sink ◽  
Thermal Load ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Flow Boiling ◽  
Uniform Heat Flux ◽  
High Speed Camera ◽  
Pressure Drops ◽  
Boiling Process ◽  
Parallel Strip

Abstract This study investigates the thermal performance of a parallel strip fin heat sink (PSFHS) under various heat flux conditions at a flowrate of 100 ml/min, including uniform heat flux and nonuniform heat flux. The heat sink consists of 150 fins with a width of 1 mm, a height of 5.5 mm, and a pitch of 1 mm and has a Z-type inlet/outlet arrangement. Nine separate heaters offer thermal load to the heat sink in order to provide a uniform or nonuniform heat flux. The flow boiling process is captured by a high-speed camera. The temperatures of the heaters have been measured under the uniform and nonuniform heat flux conditions. In addition, the pressure drops inside the heat sink are also obtained. A minichannel heat sink (MCHS) with the same channel dimensions and inlet/outlet configuration is tested too. A comparison between MCHS and PSFHS is discussed in detail, which helps to understand the flow boiling characteristic in PSFHS.

Flow Boiling on Heterogeneous Wetting Surface in a Vertical Narrow Microchannel

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuhao Lin ◽  
Junye Li ◽  
Kan Zhou ◽  
Wei Li ◽  
Kuang Sheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Flow Instability ◽  
Flow Boiling ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Flow Patterns ◽  
Bubble Nucleation ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
Hydrophilic Surface ◽  
Structured Surfaces ◽  
Boiling Process

Abstract The micro structured surfaces have significant impact on the flow patterns and heat transfer mechanisms during the flow boiling process. The hydrophobic surface promotes bubble nucleation while the hydrophilic surface supplies liquid to a heating surface, thus there is a trade-off between a hydrophobic and a hydrophilic surface. To examine the effect of heterogeneous wetting surface on flow boiling process, an experimental investigation of flow boiling in a rectangular vertical narrow microchannel with the heterogeneous wetting surface was conducted with deionized water as the working fluid. The heat transfer characteristics of flow boiling in the microchannel was studied and the flow pattern was photographed with a high-speed camera. The onset of flow boiling and heat transfer coefficient were discussed with the variation of heatfluxes and mass fluxes, the trends of which were analyzed along with the flow patterns. During the boiling process, the dominated heat transfer mechanism was nucleate boiling, with numerous nucleate sites between the hydrophilic/hydrophobic stripes and on the hydrophobic ones. In the meantime, after the merged bubbles were constrained by the channel walls, it would be difficult for them to expand towards upstream since they were restricted by the contact line between hydrophilic/hydrophobic stripes, thereby reduce the flow instability and achieve remarkable heat transfer performance.

Review on Bubble Dynamics in Microchannel Heat Sink

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sambhaji T. Kadam ◽  
Ibrahim Hassan ◽  
Ritunesh Kumar ◽  
Aziz Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Bubble Growth ◽  
Bubble Dynamics ◽  
Growth Models ◽  
Flow Boiling ◽  
Nucleation Site ◽  
Bubble Nucleation ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Geometrical Parameters ◽  
Detailed Knowledge ◽  
Diffusion Controlled

Abstract Inception of the boiling, in pool or flow boiling, is the formation of the vapour bubble at active nucleation site. The bubble dynamics plays an important role in the boiling process. It is critical as it unfolds many facets especially when channel size is reduced to submicron. The detailed knowledge of the bubble dynamics is helpful in establishing the thermal and hydraulic flow behaviour in microchannel. In this paper, the bubble dynamics which include bubble nucleation at nucleation site, its growth, departure and motion along the flow in a microchannel are discussed in details. Different models are developed for the critical cavity radius are compiled and observed that they show large variation when compare. The bubble growth models are compiled and concluded that a development of more generalized bubble growth model is necessary to account for the inertia controlled and thermal diffusion controlled regions. The bubble at the nucleation site in a microchannel grows under the influence of various forces such as surface tension, inertia, shear, gravitational and evaporation momentum. Parametric variations of these forces are critically studied and reckoned that the slope of these forces seems to be reduced beyond 500 μm. Eventually, possible impact of the various factors such as operating conditions, geometrical parameters, and thermophysical properties of fluid on bubble dynamics in microchannel has been reported.

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