Measurements and modeling of two-phase flow in microchannels with nearly constant heat flux boundary conditions

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lian Zhang ◽  
Jae-Mo Koo ◽  
Linan Jiang ◽  
M. Asheghi ◽  
K.E. Goodson ◽  
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1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (3) ◽  
pp. 646-652 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. S. Zhao ◽  
Q. Liao ◽  
P. Cheng

This paper presents an experimental study of a buoyancy-induced flow of water with phase-change heat transfer in a vertical porous tube heated at a constant heat flux. Experiments were carried out from subcooled liquid flow to connective boiling by varying the imposed heat fluxes. At a prescribed heat flux the steady-state mass flux of water, as well as the temperatures along the tube wall and along the centerline of the packed tube, were measured. It is shown that for both single-phase flow and the two-phase flow with a rather low vapor fraction, the induced mass flux increased as the heat flux was increased. However, as the imposed heat flux was increased further, the induced mass flux dropped drastically, and remained relatively constant afterwards. The influences of various parameters such as the porous tube diameter, the particle sizes, and the hydrostatic head on the induced mass flux are also examined.


1994 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 210-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Willi Hensel ◽  
Ulrich Krause ◽  
Wolfgang John ◽  
Klaus Machnow

Volume 1 ◽  
2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric B. Ratts ◽  
J. Steven Brown

This paper is a fundamental study on the irreversibility of single-phase laminar convective heat transfer over a flat plate with isothermal and constant heat flux boundary conditions. It quantifies the losses due to viscous momentum transfer losses and heat transfer losses and presents the irreversibility of the convective flow based on the entropy generation (EG) method. This paper determines the entropy generation for incompressible, single phase, laminar flow for large and small Prandtl numbers over a flat plate with isothermal and constant heat flux boundary conditions using von Ka´rma´n’s integral theory.


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