Journal
JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC PACKAGING
Volume 131, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
ASME
DOI: 10.1115/1.3104028
Keywords
drops; laminar flow; microfluidics; two-phase flow
Funding
- National Science Foundation [CBET-0730315, CBET-0729693]
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This study concerns pressure drop of adiabatic water liquid-vapor two-phase flow across an array of 1950 staggered square micropin-fins having a 200x200 mu m cross section by 670 mu m height. The ratios of longitudinal pitch and transverse pitch to pin-fin equivalent diameter are equal to 2. An inline immersion heater upstream of the micropin-fin test module was employed to produce liquid-vapor two-phase mixture, which flowed across the micropin-fin array. The test module was well insulated to maintain adiabatic condition. Four maximum mass velocities of 184 kg/m(2) s, 235 kg/m(2) s, 337 kg/m(2) s, and 391 kg/m(2) s, and a range of vapor qualities for each maximum mass velocity were tested. Measured pressure drop increases drastically with increasing vapor quality. Nine existing two-phase pressure drop models and correlations were assessed. The Lockhart-Martinelli correlation for laminar liquid-laminar vapor combination in conjunction with a single-phase friction factor correlation proposed for the present micropin-fin array provided the best agreement with the data.
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