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Convective Boiling in Microchannels

Posted 14 Jan, 2009 in Animations

Contributor(s) Tannaz Harirchian, Suresh V. Garimella
Purdue University
Abstract

To develop a flow regime map for convective boiling in microchannels and to propose flow pattern-based models to predict the corresponding heat transfer coefficients, a thorough understanding of the existing flow patterns and their transitions is necessary. In the present work, high-speed photography is employed to observe the flow patterns in flow boiling of a dielectric liquid, FC-77, in parallel silicon microchannels of depth 400 μm and widths ranging from 100 to 5850 μm. A high-speed digital video camera is used to observe boiling patterns at frame rates ranging from 2000 to 24000 frames per second.
The video presented shows bubbly flow regime visualized in a 400 μm-wide microchannel, with fluorinert liquid flowing at a mass flux of 700 kg/m2s and subjected to a wall heat flux of 81 kW/m2.

credits Tannaz Harirchian and Suresh V. Garimella, Cooling Technologies Research Center, School of Mechanical Engineering and Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University
citations Harirchian, T. and Garimella, S. V., 2008b, “An Investigation of Flow Boiling Regimes in Microchannels of Different Sizes by Means of High-Speed Visualization,” 11th IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, I-THERM, pp. 197-206.
publications [1] Harirchian, T. and Garimella, S. V., 2008b, “An Investigation of Flow Boiling Regimes in Microchannels of Different Sizes by Means of High-Speed Visualization,” 11th IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, I-THERM, pp. 197-206.
[2] Harirchian, T. and Garimella, S. V., 2008d, “Flow Patterns during Convective Boiling in Microchannels,” Journal of Heat Transfer, 130 (8).
[3] Harirchian, T. and Garimella, S. V., 2008a, “Microchannel Size Effects on Local Flow Boiling Heat Transfer to a Dielectric Fluid,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 51, pp. 3724-3735.
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    Harirchian, T. and Garimella, S. V., 2008b, “An Investigation of Flow Boiling Regimes in Microchannels of Different Sizes by Means of High-Speed Visualization,” 11th IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, I-THERM, pp. 197-206.
  • Tannaz Harirchian; Suresh V. Garimella (2009), "Convective Boiling in Microchannels," http://thermalhub.org/resources/169.

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  1. boiling flow regime
  2. flow visualization
  3. microchannels
  4. two-phase flow