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Contribution de l'évaporation d'un film mince pendant l'ébullition en écoulement dans des microcanaux.

Contribution of thin-film evaporation during flow boiling inside microchannels.

Auteurs : MUKHERJEE A.

Type d'article : Article

Résumé

Flow boiling through microchannels is characterized by nucleation and growth of vapour bubbles that fill the entire channel cross-sectional area. As the bubbles nucleate and grow inside the microchannel, a thin film of liquid or a microlayer gets trapped between the bubbles and the channel walls. The heat transfer mechanism present at the channel walls during flow boiling is studied numerically. It is then compared to the heat transfer mechanisms present during nucleate pool boiling and in a moving evaporating meniscus. Increasing contact angle improved wall heat transfer in case of nucleate boiling and moving evaporating meniscus but not in the case of flow boiling inside a microchannel. It is shown that the thermal and the flow fields present inside the microchannel around a bubble are fundamentally different as compared to nucleate pool boiling or in a moving evaporating meniscus. It is explained why thin-film evaporation is the dominant heat transfer mechanism and is responsible for creating an apparent nucleate boiling effect inside a microchannel. [Reprinted with permission from Elsevier. Copyright, 2009].

Détails

  • Titre original : Contribution of thin-film evaporation during flow boiling inside microchannels.
  • Identifiant de la fiche : 2010-0734
  • Langues : Anglais
  • Source : International Journal of thermal Sciences - vol. 48 - n. 11
  • Date d'édition : 11/2009
  • DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2009.03.006

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