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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THERMAL SCIENCES
卷 184, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2022.107893
关键词
Marangoni flow; Capillary flow; Thin-film evaporation; Micropillar wick evaporator; Dryout heat flux
This study develops a comprehensive model for the evaporation from a micropillar evaporator by coupling the liquid flow with the energy transfer in both liquid and solid domains at both cell-and device-levels. The model successfully validates previous experiments and reveals the previously unexplored role of Marangoni flow in the evaporation of water from micropillar evaporators.
The evaporation from a micropillar evaporator is a problem governed by various interfacial phenomena such as the capillarity-induced liquid flow, thin-film evaporation intensifying near the contact lines, and thermocapillarity-induced Marangoni flow. However, past research has not been able to assess the effect of Marangoni flow due to the missing coupling between cell-and device-level modeling. In this work, we develop a comprehensive model for the evaporation from a micropillar evaporator by coupling the liquid flow with the energy transfer in both liquid and solid domains at both cell-and device-levels. The model is successfully validated with previous experiments. When the Marangoni number is sufficiently high, the model identifies a sharp reduction in the evaporator temperature attributed to the thermocapillary convection creating circulations beneath the liquid-vapor interface, which results in the formation of periodic reverse surface flows on the interface. This temperature drop cannot be identified when thermocapillarity is switched off in the model and the model's prediction substantially deviates from experimental measurement. Therefore, the current study reveals a hitherto unexplored role of Marangoni flow in the evaporation of water from micropillar evaporators.
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