Flow Patterns and Heat Transfer for Flow Boiling in Small to Micro Diameter Tubes

Using Burnett Equations to Derive an Analytical Solution to Pressure-Driven Gas Flow and Heat Transfer in Micro-Couette Flow

The aim of the present study is deriving an analytical solution to incompressible thermal flow in a micro-Couette geometry in the presence of a pressure gradient using Burnett equations with first- and second-order slip boundary conditions. The lower plate of the micro-Couette structure is stationary, whereas the upper plate moves at a constant velocity. Non-dimensional axial velocity and tempe...

Flow Boiling Heat Transfer in Microchannels

A Model for Correlating Flow Boiling Heat Transfer in Augmented Tubes and Compact Evaporators

The additive model for the convective and nucleate boiling components originally suggested by Bergles and Rohsenow (1964) for subcooled and low-quality regions was employed in the Kandlikar correlation (1990a) for flow boiling in smooth tubes. It is now extended to augmented tubes and compact evaporators. Two separate factors are introduced in the convective boiling and the nucleate boiling ter...

Experiments on Flow Boiling Heat Transfer of Pure CO2 and CO2-Oil Mixtures in Horizontal Smooth and Micro-Fin Tubes

Experiments on the flow boiling heat transfer of almost pure CO2 and CO2-oil mixtures in horizontal smooth and micro-fin tubes have been carried out. The smooth tube is a stainless steel tube with an inside diameter of 3mm, and the micro-fin tube is a copper tube with a mean inside diameter of 3.04mm. Experiments were carried out at mass velocities from 190 to 1300kg/(ms), saturation temperatur...

A General Correlation for Saturated Two-Phase Flow Boiling Heat Transfer Inside Horizontal and Vertical Tubes

A simple correlation was developed earlier by Kandlikar (1983) for predicting saturated flow boiling heat transfer coefficients inside horizontal and vertical tubes. It was based on a model utilizing the contributions due to nucleate boiling and convective mechanisms. It incorporated a fluid-dependent parameter Ffl in the nucleate boiling term. The predictive ability of the correlation for diff...