Experimental Investigation of Single-Phase Microjet Array Heat Transfer

2010 ◽  
Vol 132 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric A. Browne ◽  
Gregory J. Michna ◽  
Michael K. Jensen ◽  
Yoav Peles

The heat transfer performance of two microjet arrays was investigated using degassed deionized water and air. The inline jet arrays had diameters of 54 μm and 112 μm, a spacing of 250 μm, a standoff of 200 μm (S/d=2.2 and 4.6, H/d=1.8 and 3.7), and jet-to-heater area ratios from 0.036 to 0.16. Average heat transfer coefficients with deionized water were obtained for 150≤Red≤3300 and ranged from 80,000 W/m2 K to 414,000 W/m2 K. A heat flux of 1110 W/cm2 was attained with 23°C inlet water and an average surface temperature of 50°C. The Reynolds number range for the same arrays with air was 300≤Red≤4900 with average heat transfer coefficients of 2500 W/m2 K to 15,000 W/m2 K. The effect of the Mach number on the area-averaged Nusselt number was found to be negligible. The data were compared with available correlations for submerged jet array heat transfer.

Author(s):  
Eric A. Browne ◽  
Gregory J. Michna ◽  
Michael K. Jensen ◽  
Yoav Peles

The heat transfer performance of two microjet arrays using degassed deionized water was investigated. The in-line jet arrays had a spacing of 250 μm, a standoff of 200 μm, and diameters of 54 and 112 μm. Average heat transfer coefficients were obtained for 150 < Red < 3300 and ranged from 80,000 to 414,000 W/m2-K. A heat flux of 1,110 W/cm2 was attained with 23 °C water and a surface temperature of 50 °C.


Energies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Yanfei Liu ◽  
Xiaotian Han ◽  
Chaoqun Shen ◽  
Feng Yao ◽  
Mengchen Zhang

A vapor chamber can meet the cooling requirements of high heat flux electronic equipment. In this paper, based on a proposed vapor chamber with a side window, a vapor chamber experimental system was designed to visually study its evaporation and condensation heat transfer performance. Using infrared thermal imaging technology, the temperature distribution and the vapor–liquid two-phase interface evolution inside the cavity were experimentally observed. Furthermore, the evaporation and condensation heat transfer coefficients were obtained according to the measured temperature of the liquid near the evaporator surface and the vapor near the condenser surface. The effects of heat load and filling rate on the thermal resistance and the evaporation and condensation heat transfer coefficients are analyzed and discussed. The results indicate that the liquid filling rate that maximized the evaporation heat transfer coefficient was different from the liquid filling rate that maximized the condensation heat transfer coefficient. The vapor chamber showed good heat transfer performance with a liquid filling rate of 33%. According to the infrared thermal images, it was observed that the evaporation/boiling heat transfer could be strengthened by the interference of easily broken bubbles and boiling liquid. When the heat input increased, the uniformity of temperature distribution was improved due to the intensified heat transfer on the evaporator surface.


2015 ◽  
Vol 1779 ◽  
pp. 39-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Mary Baloyo ◽  
Yuyuan Zhao

ABSTRACTThe heat transfer coefficients of homogeneous and hybrid micro-porous copper foams, produced by the Lost Carbonate Sintering (LCS) process, were measured under one-dimensional forced convection conditions using water coolant. In general, increasing the water flow rate led to an increase in the heat transfer coefficients. For homogeneous samples, the optimum heat transfer performance was observed for samples with 60% porosity. Different trends in the heat transfer coefficients were found in samples with hybrid structures. Firstly, for horizontal bilayer structures, placing the high porosity layer by the heater gave a higher heat transfer coefficient than the other way round. Secondly, for integrated vertical bilayer structures, having the high porosity layer by the water inlet gave a better heat transfer performance. Lastly, for segmented vertical bilayer samples, having the low porosity layer by the water inlet offered the greatest heat transfer coefficient overall, which is five times higher than its homogeneous counterpart.


Author(s):  
Claire M. Kunkle ◽  
Jordan P. Mizerak ◽  
Van P. Carey

The development of hydrophilic surface coatings for enhanced wetting characteristics has led to improvement in heat transfer metrics like impinging droplet vaporization time and the heat transfer coefficient. Hydrothermal synthesis, a method of developing hydrophilic surfaces, has been previously shown to produce high performing heat transfer surfaces on copper substrates [1]. Our study applied this production method to aluminum substrates, which have the advantage of being cheaper, lighter, and a more widely used for heat sinks than copper. Previous experiments have shown that water droplets on ZnO nanostructure coated surfaces, at low superheats, evaporate via thin film evaporation rather than nucleate boiling. This leads to heat transfer coefficients as much as three times higher than nucleate boiling models for the same superheat. Our nanocoated aluminum surfaces exhibit superhydrophilicity with an average droplet liquid film thickness of 20–30 microns, which can produce heat transfer coefficients of over 25 kW/m2K. This study discusses characterization of ZnO nanostructured aluminum surfaces to better understand the related mechanisms which lead to such high heat transfer performance. All ZnO nanostructured aluminum surfaces produced for this study exhibited superhydrophilicity, with sessile droplet contact angles of less than 5 degrees. The challenge of achieving accuracy for such low contact angles led to the development of a new wetting metric related to the droplet’s wetted area on a surface rather than the contact angle. This new metric is predicated on the the fact that heat transfer performance is directly related to this wetted area, thickens, and shape of the expanding droplet footprint. Shape irregularity of droplets on these superhydrophilic surfaces is discussed in this study, where there appears to be advantages to irregular spreading compared with surfaces that produce symmetric radial spreading. One form of irregular spreading consists of liquid droplets spreading out both on top of the surface and within the microstructure of the surface coating. The liquid within the microstructure forms films less than 5 microns thick, making local heat transfer coefficients of greater than 100 kW/m2K possible. SEM microscope imaging provided additional insight to the underlying mechanisms which cause these surfaces to produce such exceptional spreading as well as irregular spreading, resulting in very good heat transfer performance. Experimental work was coupled with computational analysis to model the contact line of the droplet footprint. Image processing of experimental photos helps to analyze spreading characteristics, which can be directly related to heat transfer due to film thickness at various points during spreading. Approaches used to characterize these superhydrophilic surfaces advance understanding of the connections between nanoscale structural elements and macroscale performance characteristics in heat transfer. This understanding can reveal key insights for developing even better high performance surfaces for a broad range of applications.


1990 ◽  
Vol 112 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. F. Monaghan ◽  
D. P. Finn ◽  
P. H. Oosthuizen

This paper deals with measurement of heat transfer performance of wind convectors, an alternative air source evaporator system for heat pumps. An automatically controlled and monitored outdoor wind convector test facility that is capable of measuring heat transfer rates and overall heat-transfer coefficients to within ± 5 percent measurement uncertainty for up to three wind convectors has been designed, built, and tested. Data on air temperature and humidity, solar radiation, and wind speed and direction are simultaneously collected. The choice of measurement technique for each variable and an error analysis for each sensor is discussed. Typical graphical test results are presented.


2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Satish G. Kandlikar ◽  
Theodore Widger ◽  
Ankit Kalani ◽  
Valentina Mejia

Flow boiling in microchannels has been extensively studied in the past decade. Instabilities, low critical heat flux (CHF) values, and low heat transfer coefficients have been identified as the major shortcomings preventing its implementation in practical high heat flux removal systems. A novel open microchannel design with uniform and tapered manifolds (OMM) is presented to provide stable and highly enhanced heat transfer performance. The effects of the gap height and flow rate on the heat transfer performance have been experimentally studied with water. The critical heat fluxes (CHFs) and heat transfer coefficients obtained with the OMM are significantly higher than the values reported by previous researchers for flow boiling with water in microchannels. A record heat flux of 506 W/cm2 with a wall superheat of 26.2 °C was obtained for a gap size of 0.127 mm. The CHF was not reached due to heater power limitation in the current design. A maximum effective heat transfer coefficient of 290,000 W/m2 °C was obtained at an intermediate heat flux of 319 W/cm2 with a gap of 0.254 mm at 225 mL/min. The flow boiling heat transfer was found to be insensitive to flow rates between 40–333 mL/min and gap sizes between 0.127–1.016 mm, indicating the dominance of nucleate boiling. The OMM geometry is promising to provide exceptional performance that is particularly attractive in meeting the challenges of high heat flux removal in electronics cooling applications.


2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (02) ◽  
pp. 1950020
Author(s):  
Yufei Liu ◽  
Kazuhide Watanabe ◽  
Daisuke Jige ◽  
Norihiro Inoue

The effect of lubricant oil on the single-phase heat transfer of R245fa inside horizontal smooth and microfin tubes was experimentally investigated. Tests were conducted using a horizontal smooth tube with an inner diameter of 8.32[Formula: see text]mm and two microfin tubes with equivalent diameters of 8.9 and 8.7[Formula: see text]mm, fin height of 0.12 and 0.18[Formula: see text]mm, and number of fins of 65 and 85, respectively. The heat transfer coefficients were measured for pure R245fa and R245fa + lubricant oil mixture in the Reynolds number range of 2000–10000, heat fluxes of 5 and 10[Formula: see text]kWm[Formula: see text], and refrigerant temperatures of 30∘C and 45∘C at the test section inlet. Oil concentration was varied at 1, 2 and 5[Formula: see text]wt.%. The results showed that the heat transfer of pure R245fa agreed well with previous correlations. However, the heat transfer coefficients of the R245fa + lubricant oil mixtures were lower than those of the pure R245fa, and decreased with an increase in oil concentration for both smooth and microfin tubes. The reduction in heat transfer was more marked for the HF tube than for the smooth and LF tubes. For the HF tube, the decrease in heat transfer was apparently more pronounced at higher oil concentrations from 2 to 5[Formula: see text]wt.% owing to immiscibility between the oil and refrigerant.


Author(s):  
Xu Chen ◽  
Pengfei Mi ◽  
Peter R. N. Childs ◽  
Ekaterina Sokolova ◽  
Wei Li ◽  
...  

Tubes with their features optimized to enhance heat transfer are routinely used in industry. A series of experimental investigations of evaporation heat transfer of widely used refrigerants inside a horizontal micro-fin cooper tube have been conducted and are reported here. The micro-fin tubes have different geometric parameters with inner diameter ranging from 4.98mm to 7.14mm. The helix angle of the tested tubes ranges from 18.858° to 35°. The apex angle of the tested tubes ranges from 11° to 40°. In addition, other geometric parameters of the tubes vary, such as the fin height, fin pitch and starts. Evaporation heat transfer experiments were conducted with the tubes and the working fluids include R22, R32 and R410A. The evaporation experiments were taken at a constant temperature of 6 °C for R22 and R410A, but 10 °C for R32. Moreover, the working conditions of the experiments varied with the mass flux ranging from 100 kg/(m2.s) to 400 kg/(m2.s). For the evaporation experiments, the inlet vapor quality is set as 0.1, while the outlet vapor quality is set as 0.9. The experimental data reveals that tubes with different geometric parameters have different heat transfer performance. The heat transfer coefficients, the reduced pressure and the changing trend of the heat transfer coefficients vary among these tubes. The experimental data has been compared with available models in the literature and an analysis of the effect of geometric parameters on the performance of the tubes undertaken. The influence of each geometric parameter on the heat transfer performance of the micro-fin tube has been analyzed and is reported.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Xu ◽  
Qiusheng Liu ◽  
Makoto Shibahara

Abstract The high heat load on the first wall of the helium cooled blanket is removed by tube flow of helium gas. Heat transfer augmentation is considered to be acquired by downsizing of channels. Therefore, this paper experimentally studied the influence of inner diameter on the heat transfer performance of helium gas flowing in a minichannel. The helium gas flowed in the small platinum tubes with the inner diameters of 0.8 mm and 1.8 mm, respectively. The heat generation rate of the tube was controlled by a heat input subsystem and raised with an exponential equation. The surface temperature and heat flux of the tubes were obtained under a wide range of e-folding time at different flow velocities. The heat transfer coefficients of different inner diameter tubes were compared at the same conditions. The heat transfer performance of the 0.8 mm-diameter tube was compared with a classical correlation. The experimental results showed that the heat transfer performance in the minichannel is better than a conventional large-diameter tube. The heat transfer coefficients of the 0.8 mm-diameter tube were higher than those of the 1.8 mm-diameter tube. The heat transfer process was enhanced with reducing the inner diameter of the minichannel. The heat transfer process was divided into two parts including transient and quasi-steady-state regions.


Author(s):  
Saad K. Oudah ◽  
Ruixian Fang ◽  
Amitav Tikadar ◽  
Karim Egab ◽  
Chen Li ◽  
...  

An experimental investigation was conducted on a single phase microchannel heat sink, in which the bottom surface of the microchannel was modified with hybrid micro-sandblasting of elliptical patterns (HSEP) and fully sandblasting (FS) to passively enhance the microchannel heat transfer performance. The dimension of the microchannel is measured as 26 mm (L) × 5mm (W) × 0.35 mm (H), which results in a hydraulic diameter of 654 μm. Deionized water was used as the coolant, and the Reynolds number range between 85 to 650 was tested. The experimental results show that fully sandblasting (FS) bottom surface of the microchannel only slightly improved the heat transfer performance. However, the modified surface with HSEP enhanced the heat transfer performance substantially, compared to the benchmark results obtained with the bare surface (BS) microchannel. The pressure drops of the HSEP increased slightly compared to the BS and FS, due to the flow resistance of the microstructures. The proposed surface for enhancement of heat transfer will be useful in many high heat flux engineering applications. In the future, this study will be further extended to two-phase microchannel heat transfer.


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