Single-phase and two-phase Flow into In-Line pin-fin micro-channel heat Sink
Heat-transfer coefficients are reported for one surface, a pin-fin surface with 50 mm square base area. The In Line pin-fin surface comprised of 1 mm square pin fins that were 1 mm high and located on a 2 mm square pitch array it that covering the base. The channel was 1 mm high and had a glass top plate. The data were produced while boiling R113 at atmospheric pressure. For this surface, the mass flux range was 50 - 250 kW/m2s and the heat flux range was 5 - 140 kW/m2. The results obtained have been compared with standard correlations for tube bundles. The measured heat-transfer coefficients for the pin-fin surface are slightly higher any surface. It is dependent on heat flux and reasonably independent of mass flux and vapor quality. Thus, heat transfer is probably dominated by nucleate boiling and is increased by the pin fins due to increasing in area and heat-transfer coefficient, the pin-fin pressure drops were typically larger than other values.