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Conjugate heat transfer effects on flow boiling in microchannels
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Author(s)
Municchi, F
El Mellas, I
Matar, OK
Magnini, M
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
This article presents a computational study of saturated flow boiling in non-circular microchannels. The unit channel of a multi-microchannel evaporator, consisting of the fluidic channel and surrounding evaporator walls, is simulated and the conjugate heat transfer problem is solved. Simulations are performed using OpenFOAM v2106 and the built-in geometric Volume Of Fluid method, augmented with self-developed libraries to include liquid-vapour phase-change and improve the surface tension force calculation. A systematic study is conducted by employing water at atmospheric pressure, a channel hydraulic diameter of µm, a uniform base heat flux of , and by varying the channel width-to-height aspect-ratio and channel fin thickness in the range –4 and , respectively. The effects of conjugate heat transfer and channel aspect-ratio on the bubble and evaporative film dynamics, heat transfer, and evaporator temperature are investigated in detail. This study reveals that, when the flow is single-phase, higher Nusselt numbers and lower evaporator base temperatures are achieved for smaller channel aspect-ratios, from and when , to and when , for same fin thickness . In the two-phase flow regime, Nusselt numbers in the range are achieved. The trends of the Nusselt number versus the aspect-ratio are non-monotonic and exhibit a marked dependence on the channel fin thickness. For small fin thicknesses, and , an overall ascending trend of for increasing aspect-ratios is apparent, although in the narrower range –2 the Nusselt number appears weakly dependent on . For thicker fins, and , the Nusselt number decreases slightly when increasing the aspect-ratio in the range –2, although this trend is not monotonic when considering the entire range of aspect-ratios investigated. Nonetheless, due to conjugate heat transfer, Nusselt numbers and evaporator base temperatures follow different trends when varying the aspect-ratio, and channels with seem to promote lower evaporator temperatures than higher aspect-ratio conduits.
Date Issued
2022-10
Date Acceptance
2022-05-19
Citation
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2022, 195, pp.123166-123166
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/98841
URL
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0017931022006366?via%3Dihub
DOI
https://www.dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2022.123166
ISSN
0017-9310
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Start Page
123166
End Page
123166
Journal / Book Title
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
Volume
195
Copyright Statement
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
License URL
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Identifier
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0017931022006366?via%3Dihub
Grant Number
EP/T03338X/1
Subjects
01 Mathematical Sciences
02 Physical Sciences
09 Engineering
Mechanical Engineering & Transports
Publication Status
Accepted
Article Number
123166
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