Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER
Volume 64, Issue -, Pages 1239-1256Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2013.04.014
Keywords
Heat transfer coefficient; Dryout incipience; Flow boiling; Mini-channel; Micro-channel
Categories
Funding
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) [NNX13AC83G]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
This second part of a two-part study examines the prediction of saturated flow boiling heat transfer in mini/micro-channels. The first part culminated in a technique for determining the dryout incipience quality corresponding to substantial deterioration in the heat transfer coefficient. In this part, a consolidated database for flow boiling in mini/micro-channels is amassed from 31 sources, of which 10,805 data points are designated as pre-dryout. The pre-dryout database consists of 18 working fluids, hydraulic diameters of 0.19-6.5 mm, mass velocities of 19-1608 kg/m(2) s, liquid-only Reynolds numbers of 57-49,820, qualities of 0-1, and reduced pressures of 0.005-0.69. The pre-dryout database is used to evaluate prior correlations that have been recommended for both macro-channels and mini/micro-channels. A few of these correlations are shown to provide fair overall performance, but their accuracy is compromised against specific portions of the database, especially high pressures and very small diameters. A new generalized correlation is constructed by superpositioning the contributions of nucleate boiling and convective boiling. This correlation is shown to provide very good predictions against the entire pre-dryout database, evidenced by an overall MAE of 20.3%, with 79.9% and 95.5% of the data falling within +/- 30% and +/- 50% error bands, respectively. Evenly good predictions are achieved for all working fluids and all ranges of the database parameters. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available