Effective numerical model for flow boiling of a nanofluid

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anurag Alam Shetty ◽  
Pradyumna Ghosh ◽  
S. S. Mondal ◽  
Nirupama S. Patra. ◽  
R. S. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Flow Boiling ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Multiphase Model ◽  
Heat Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Ansys Fluent ◽  
Phase Mixture ◽  
Eulerian Multiphase Model ◽  
Good Agreement

Flow boiling of Al2O3-Water nanofluid has been investigated numerically using the Eulerian multiphase model in ANSYS FLUENT. The physical properties have been computed using the two phase mixture model. In the Eulerian multiphase model, Rensselaer Polytechnic Initiative (RPI) nucleate boiling model has been used for modeling boiling. Axial vapor fraction has been computed in case of flow boiling of water and heat transfer coefficient has been computed in case of flow boiling of Al2O3-Water nanofluid. The numerical results obtained were in good agreement with experimental results. The RPI model predicts the heat transfer characteristics quickly.

Heat Transfer in Vapour-Liquid Flow at High Reduced Pressures

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Yagov ◽  
Maria Minko
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Experimental Data ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Flow Boiling ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Phase Flow ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Co2 Flow ◽  
Reduced Pressures ◽  
Good Agreement

During the last decade a number of studies of boiling heat transfer in carbon dioxide notably increase. As a field of CO2 practical using corresponds to high reduced pressures, and a majority of available experimental data on CO2 flow boiling even in submillimetric channels relate to turbulent liquid flow regimes, a possibility arises to develop sufficiently general method for HTC predicting. Under the above conditions nucleate boiling occurs up to rather high flow quality, even in annular flow regime due to extremely small size of an equilibrium vapour bubble. This conclusion is in agreement with the available experimental data. The predicting equation for nucleate boiling heat transfer developed by one of the present authors in 1988 is valid for any nonmetallic liquid. A contribution of forced convection in heat transfer is calculated according to the Petukhov et al. equation with correction factor, which accounted for an effect of velocity increase due to evaporation. This effect can be essential at relatively small heat fluxes and rather high mass flow rates. The Reynolds analogy and homogeneous model are used in order to account for the convective heat transfer augmentation in two-phase flow. Due to low ratio of liquid and vapour densities at high reduced pressures the homogeneous approximation of two-phase flow seems to be warranted. A total heat transfer coefficient is calculated as an interpolated value of boiling and convective HTCs. The experimental data on CO2 flow boiling related to regimes before heated wall dryout incipience are in rather good agreement with the calculations. Besides the data on carbon dioxide flow boiling, the results on water, helium, nitrogen and some refrigerants were used for comparison; at rather high reduced pressures the computed and the measured values of HTCs are in a good agreement. The data include results obtained in the channels of a diameter from 0.6mm up to 18mm. It is clear that at high reduced pressures there is no strong variation in boiling heat transfer with channel size decrease, it means that a classification on channel size has no sense if it does not consider liquid/vapour densities ratio.

Experimental Study on Flow Boiling Heat Transfer in an Extremely Small Tube

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haruhiko Ohta ◽  
Koichi Inoue ◽  
Yuichiro Shimada
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Forced Convection ◽  
Flow Boiling ◽  
Vapor Quality ◽  
Heat Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Flow Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Small Tube

Flow boiling heat transfer in a single small tube is investigated by using FC72 as a working fluid. The heat transfer coefficients are measured in the ranges of heat flux 2–24kW/m2 and mass velocity 100–400kg/m2s under the condition of near atmospheric pressure. Test tube, made of stainless steel, has an inner diameter of 0.51mm and a heated length of 200mm. The tube is located horizontally in a vacuum chamber to reduce the heat loss and to minimize the time to obtain data regarded as that of steady state. In the single-phase region, heat transfer coefficients due to forced convection are in good agreement with the values from the conventional theories. In the saturated region, measured heat transfer characteristics are quite different depending on whether the test liquid is deaerated or not deaerated before the experiments. By using deaerated liquid, three different heat transfer regimes are observed: In the first regime, the heat transfer is dominated by nucleate boiling in low vapor quality, and the heat transfer is deteriorated or enhanced depending on the channel confinement and heat flux. In the second regime, the heat transfer is dominated by two-phase forced convection in moderate quality as is well known for the tubes of normal size. In the third regime, the heat transfer is dominated again by two-phase forced convection, but is deteriorated in high quality. One or two regimes can disappear or become unclear depending on the conditions of flow and heating. The effects of vapor quality and mass velocity on the heat transfer characteristics due to two-phase forced convection in the moderate vapor quality are clarified in the experimental ranges tested. And a reason for the gradual heat transfer deterioration observed in high quality is discussed based on the liquid-vapor behaviors inherent in small diameter tubes.

Two-Phase Pipe Quenching Correlations for Liquid Nitrogen and Liquid Hydrogen

2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. R. Darr ◽  
J. W. Hartwig ◽  
J. Dong ◽  
H. Wang ◽  
A. K. Majumdar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Liquid Nitrogen ◽  
Critical Heat Flux ◽  
Flow Boiling ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Liquid Hydrogen ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Cryogenic Flow ◽  
Two Phase Heat Transfer

Recently, two-phase cryogenic flow boiling data in liquid nitrogen (LN2) and liquid hydrogen (LH2) were compared to the most popular two-phase correlations, as well as correlations used in two of the most widely used commercially available thermal/fluid design codes in Hartwig et al. (2016, “Assessment of Existing Two Phase Heat Transfer Coefficient and Critical Heat Flux on Cryogenic Flow Boiling Quenching Experiments,” Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 93, pp. 441–463). Results uncovered that the correlations performed poorly, with predictions significantly higher than the data. Disparity is primarily due to the fact that most two-phase correlations are based on room temperature fluids, and for the heating configuration, not the quenching configuration. The penalty for such poor predictive tools is higher margin, safety factor, and cost. Before control algorithms for cryogenic transfer systems can be implemented, it is first required to develop a set of low-error, fundamental two-phase heat transfer correlations that match available cryogenic data. This paper presents the background for developing a new set of quenching/chilldown correlations for cryogenic pipe flow on thin, shorter lines, including the results of an exhaustive literature review of 61 sources. New correlations are presented which are based on the consolidated database of 79,915 quenching points for a 1.27 cm diameter line, covering a wide range of inlet subcooling, mass flux, pressure, equilibrium quality, flow direction, and even gravity level. Functional forms are presented for LN2 and LH2 chilldown correlations, including film, transition, and nucleate boiling, critical heat flux, and the Leidenfrost point.

Flow Boiling Heat Transfer and Two-Phase Flow Instability of Nanofluids in a Minichannel

2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leyuan Yu ◽  
Aritra Sur ◽  
Dong Liu
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Two Phase Flow ◽  
Flow Instability ◽  
Flow Boiling ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Flow Instabilities ◽  
Phase Flow ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Flow Boiling Heat Transfer

Single-phase convective heat transfer of nanofluids has been studied extensively, and different degrees of enhancement were observed over the base fluids, whereas there is still debate on the improvement in overall thermal performance when both heat transfer and hydrodynamic characteristics are considered. Meanwhile, very few studies have been devoted to investigating two-phase heat transfer of nanofluids, and it remains inconclusive whether the same pessimistic outlook should be expected. In this work, an experimental study of forced convective flow boiling and two-phase flow was conducted for Al2O3–water nanofluids through a minichannel. General flow boiling heat transfer characteristics were measured, and the effects of nanofluids on the onset of nucleate boiling (ONB) were studied. Two-phase flow instabilities were also explored with an emphasis on the transition boundaries of onset of flow instabilities (OFI). It was found that the presence of nanoparticles delays ONB and suppresses OFI, and the extent is correlated to the nanoparticle volume concentration. These effects were attributed to the changes in available nucleation sites and surface wettability as well as thinning of thermal boundary layers in nanofluid flow. Additionally, it was observed that the pressure-drop type flow instability prevails in two-phase flow of nanofluids, but with reduced amplitude in pressure, temperature, and mass flux oscillations.

Two Phase Flow Simulation for Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer Calculation in Waterjacket of Diesel Engine

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arash Mohammadi ◽  
Hossein Hashemi ◽  
Ali Jazayeri ◽  
Mahdi Ahmadi
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Temperature Field ◽  
Diesel Engine ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Cylinder Head ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Phase Mixture

Basic understanding of the process of coolant heat transfer inside an engine is an indispensable prerequisite to devise an infallible cooling strategy. Coolant flow and its heat transfer affect the cooling efficiency, thermal load of heated components, and thermal efficiency of a diesel engine. An efficient approach to study cooling system for diesel engine is a 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) calculation for coolant jacket. Therefore, computer simulation can analyze and consequently optimize cooling system performance, including complex cooling jacket. In this paper a computational model for boiling heat transfer based on two-phase Mixture model flow is established. Furthermore, the phenomenon of nucleate boiling, its mathematical modeling, and its effect on heat transfer is discussed. Besides, the static, total and absolute pressure, velocity and stream lines of the flow field, heat flux, heat transfer coefficient and volume fraction of vapor distribution in the coolant jacket of a four-cylinder diesel engine is computed. Also, comparison between experimental equation (Pflaum/Mollenhauer) and two-phase Mixture model for boiling hat transfer coefficient is done and good agreement is seen. In conclusion, it is observed that at high operating temperatures, nucleate boiling occurs in regions around the exhaust port. Numerical simulation of boiling heat transfer process of cooling water jacket and temperature field in the cylinder head of the diesel engine is compared with the data measured on the engine test bench. The calculated results indicate that this method can reflect the impact of boiling heat transfer on water jacket rather accurate. Therefore, this method is benefit to improve the computational precision in the temperature field computation of a cylinder head.

Numerical study on evaporation heat transfer characteristics of water in inclined microchannels with varying inlet vapor quality

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-131
Author(s):  
Vivekanand SVB ◽  
Raju VRK
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Nusselt Number ◽  
Vapor Phase ◽  
Heated Wall ◽  
Phase Flow ◽  
Vapor Quality ◽  
Heat Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Ansys Fluent ◽  
Content Type

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of gravity on the heat transfer behavior of the two-phase flow of water undergoing phase change. Most of the earlier studies of convective boiling considered systems where the gravity is neglected. In contrast, the authors investigated systems where the gravity is considered. The heat transfer characteristics of water during its evaporation in microchannel heat sink are studied for different channel inclinations.Design/methodology/approachComputational fluid dynamics software ANSYS Fluent is used for the computational study. The volume of fluids multiphase method available in the package is used to capture the vapor–liquid interface. Heat transfer studies are carried out for a rectangular microchannel having a characteristic dimension of 825 µm at different inclinations, which varied from −90° (vertically downward) to 90° (vertically upward). During each simulation, the vapor quality is set at the inlet. Uniform heat flux of 250 kW/m2is applied at the bottom wall of the channel in all orientations of the channel, keeping the upper wall insulated.FindingsAs compared to horizontal configuration, a significant increase in the values of heat transfer coefficient during the fluid flow in inclined microchannels is noticed. It is observed that the Nusselt number for the vertically upward (+90°) and horizontal (0°) configuration are similar and that for the 45° upward configuration exceeds other configurations. It is also observed that the heat transfer performance becomes lower in downward configurations; nearly 40-50 per cent drop in average Nusselt number is observed for a mass flux of 250 kg m-2s-1with respect to 45° inclined microchannel. This behavior can be attributed to the gravitational effect on the two-phase flow because of which the vapor phase being less dense moves away from the heated wall, whereas the primary phase being heavier moves towards the heated wall of the channel. Also, the conductivity of the liquid being higher than the vapor phase, as well as the aperture of the liquid being small during this process, its velocity increases resulting in the augmentation of heat transfer.Originality/valueUser-defined-functions for the mass and energy source terms have been written in C code and hooked in ANSYS Fluent to incorporate the phase change mechanism during the evaporation of water.

Heat Transfer Mechanisms During Flow Boiling in Microchannels

2004 ◽  
Vol 126 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satish G. Kandlikar
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Contact Line ◽  
Channel Wall ◽  
Flow Boiling ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Low Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Low Reynolds ◽  
Transfer Mechanisms

The forces due to surface tension and momentum change during evaporation, in conjunction with the forces due to viscous shear and inertia, govern the two-phase flow patterns and the heat transfer characteristics during flow boiling in microchannels. These forces are analyzed in this paper, and two new nondimensional groups, K1 and K2, relevant to flow boiling phenomenon are derived. These groups are able to represent some of the key flow boiling characteristics, including the CHF. In addition, a mechanistic description of the flow boiling phenomenon is presented. The small hydraulic dimensions of microchannel flow passages present a large frictional pressure drop in single-phase and two-phase flows. The small hydraulic diameter also leads to low Reynolds numbers, in the range 100–1000, or even lower for smaller diameter channels. Such low Reynolds numbers are rarely employed during flow boiling in conventional channels. In these low Reynolds number flows, nucleate boiling systematically emerges as the dominant mode of heat transfer. The high degree of wall superheat required to initiate nucleation in microchannels leads to rapid evaporation and flow instabilities, often resulting in flow reversal in multiple parallel channel configuration. Aided by strong evaporation rates, the bubbles nucleating on the wall grow rapidly and fill the entire channel. The contact line between the bubble base and the channel wall surface now becomes the entire perimeter at both ends of the vapor slug. Evaporation occurs at the moving contact line of the expanding vapor slug as well as over the channel wall covered with a thin evaporating film surrounding the vapor core. The usual nucleate boiling heat transfer mechanisms, including liquid film evaporation and transient heat conduction in the liquid adjacent to the contact line region, play an important role. The liquid film under the large vapor slug evaporates completely at downstream locations thus presenting a dryout condition periodically with the passage of each large vapor slug. The experimental data and high speed visual observations confirm some of the key features presented in this paper.

Suppression of Flow Boiling Nucleation

1997 ◽  
Vol 119 (3) ◽  
pp. 517-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. E. Thorncroft ◽  
J. F. Klausner ◽  
R. Mei
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Dimensionless Parameter ◽  
Two Phase Flow ◽  
Flow Boiling ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Nucleation Site ◽  
Complete Suppression ◽  
Phase Flow ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Nucleation Sites

A simple model is presented for estimating the ratio of the maximum to minimum cavity radius required for ebullition in two-phase flow with heat transfer. The resulting dimensionless parameter, rmax/rmin, is demonstrated to correlate flow boiling nucleation site density. As the convective heat transfer associated with bulk turbulence in two-phase flow is enhanced, rmax→rmin, and the probability of finding surface cavities whose radii lie between rmaxandrmin is reduced. Thus, active nucleation sites become deactivated. A vertical flow boiling facility was fabricated in which the nucleation suppression point can be measured. Experiments conducted for mass flux ranging from 183–315 kg/m2-s and inlet quality ranging from 0–0.151, along with data available from the literature, suggest that rmax/rmin is the leading order dimensionless parameter on which the complete suppression of nucleation sites depends. Although the suppression of nucleation sites also depends, to a certain extent, on the surface/fluid combination and heat flux, it is found that complete suppression occurs for rmax/rmin ranging from 40 to 120. This is proposed as a criterion to discriminate the purely convective regime from the nucleate boiling regime.

Proposed Correlation for Forced Convection Boiling Heat Transfer in Mini and Micro Channels With CO2 as a Fluid

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayank I. Vyas ◽  
Salim A. Channiwala ◽  
Mitesh N. Prajapati
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Two Phase Flow ◽  
Flow Boiling ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
Phase Flow ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Flow Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Micro Channels

After reviewing the available literature on flow boiling heat transfer in mini/micro tubes and channels, it is felt that there is need for predictive correlations which is applicable over wide range of parameters. In present work a new correlation for two-phase flow boiling heat transfer coefficient is developed, which has considered nucleate boiling and convective boiling heat transfer effect. To develop this correlation we have considered total 651 data points, which have been collected from the open available literature covering different operational conditions and different dimensions of channels. We have selected CO2 as a working fluid because it does not contain chlorine, hence an efficient and environmentally safe refrigerant and would be potential replacement for R-22. CO2 has unusual heat transfer and two-phase flow characteristics, and is very different from those of conventional refrigerant. Also a comparison of present correlation with the best published correlation for CO2 is done. The results of this comparison indicate that the new developed correlation is superior to published best correlation for CO2. Present correlation is also compared with best published correlation for all fluids and with the correlation developed by using CO2 data. The results of these both case, indicate that the present correlation is superior.

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