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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER
Volume 83, Issue -, Pages 109-117Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2014.11.080
Keywords
Homogeneous flow model; Flow boiling heat transfer; OMM; Pressure drop modeling; Uniform and tapered manifold
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- National Science Foundation [CBET-1236062]
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Flow boiling in microchannels is considered an attractive cooling option due to its small hydraulic diameter, latent heat effect and relative uniformity of coolant temperature. Although various techniques have been successfully employed to provide stable boiling operation in microchannels, it suffers from poor heat transfer performance with low critical heat flux (CHF) and low heat transfer coefficient (HTC). The tapered manifold with open microchannel (OMM) geometry provides stable operation with high heat transfer performance coupled with a very low pressure drop (less than 10 kPa). In this study, the pressure drop components from friction, acceleration and area changes during flow boiling of water at atmospheric pressure in the OMM geometry are evaluated using homogeneous flow model. Pressure recovery resulting from area change due to the taper is identified as a major factor in the extremely low pressure drops observed in this geometry. Seven viscosity averaging schemes are used to predict the frictional pressure drop. The best performing viscosity models are able to predict the pressure drop for the tapered configurations with a microchannel chip within an average MAE of less than +/- 30%. High speed visualization of the boiling phenomenon supports the applicability of the homogeneous flow model in the open microchannel geometry. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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