scholarly journals Gas Microflows in the Slip Flow Regime: A Critical Review on Convective Heat Transfer

2011 ◽  
Vol 134 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphane Colin
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Convective Heat Transfer ◽  
Flow Regime ◽  
Convective Heat ◽  
Temperature Jump ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Slip Flow ◽  
Velocity Slip ◽  
Constant Wall Temperature ◽  
Slip Flow Regime

Accurate modeling of gas microvection is crucial for a lot of MEMS applications (microheat exchangers, pressure gauges, fluidic microactuators for active control of aerodynamic flows, mass flow and temperature microsensors, micropumps, and microsystems for mixing or separation for local gas analysis, mass spectrometers, vacuum, and dosing valves…). Gas flows in microsystems are often in the slip flow regime, characterized by a moderate rarefaction with a Knudsen number of the order of 10−2–10−1. In this regime, velocity slip and temperature jump at the walls play a major role in heat transfer. This paper presents a state of the art review on convective heat transfer in microchannels, focusing on rarefaction effects in the slip flow regime. Analytical and numerical models are compared for various microchannel geometries and heat transfer conditions (constant heat flux or constant wall temperature). The validity of simplifying assumptions is detailed and the role played by the kind of velocity slip and temperature jump boundary conditions is shown. The influence of specific effects, such as viscous dissipation, axial conduction and variable fluid properties is also discussed.

Gas Microflows in the Slip Flow Regime: A Review on Heat Transfer

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ste´phane Colin
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Flow Regime ◽  
Temperature Jump ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Slip Flow ◽  
Velocity Slip ◽  
Constant Heat Flux ◽  
Gas Analysis ◽  
Constant Wall Temperature ◽  
Slip Flow Regime

Accurate modeling of gas microvection is crucial for a lot of MEMS applications (micro-heat exchangers, pressure gauges, fluidic microactuators for active control of aerodynamic flows, mass flow and temperature micro-sensors, micropumps and microsystems for mixing or separation for local gas analysis, mass spectrometers, vacuum and dosing valves…). Gas flows in microsystems are often in the slip flow regime, characterized by a moderate rarefaction with a Knudsen number of the order of 10−2–10−1. In this regime, velocity slip and temperature jump at the walls play a major role in heat transfer. This paper presents a state of the art review on convective heat transfer in microchannels, focusing on rarefaction effects in the slip flow regime. Analytical and numerical models are compared for various microchannel geometries and heat transfer conditions (constant heat flux or constant wall temperature). The validity of simplifying assumptions is detailed and the role played by the kind of velocity slip and temperature jump boundary conditions is shown. The influence of specific effects, such as viscous dissipation, axial conduction and variable fluid properties is also discussed.

Mixed Convection in a Vertical Microannulus Between Two Concentric Microtubes

2008 ◽  
Vol 131 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mete Avcı ◽  
Orhan Aydın
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Aspect Ratio ◽  
Mixed Convection ◽  
Convective Heat Transfer ◽  
Temperature Jump ◽  
Slip Flow ◽  
Velocity Slip ◽  
Slip Flow Regime ◽  
Convection Parameter ◽  
Rarefaction Effects

In this study, fully developed mixed convective heat transfer of a Newtonian fluid in a vertical microannulus between two concentric microtubes is analytically investigated by taking the velocity slip and the temperature jump at the wall into account. The effects of the mixed convection parameter Gr/Re, the Knudsen number Kn, and the aspect ratio r* on the microchannel hydrodynamic and thermal behaviors are determined. Finally, a Nu=f(Gr∕Re,Kn,r*) expression is developed. It is disclosed that increasing Gr/Re enhances heat transfer while rarefaction effects considered by the velocity slip and the temperature jump in the slip flow regime decreases it.

Three Dimensional Numerical Analysis of Laminar Slip-Flow Heat Transfer in Rectangular Microchannels

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. D. Madhawa Hettiarachchi ◽  
Mihajlo Golubovic ◽  
William M. Worek
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Boundary Condition ◽  
Temperature Jump ◽  
Slip Flow ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Velocity Slip ◽  
Thermal Boundary Condition ◽  
Navier Stokes ◽  
Constant Wall Temperature ◽  
Rectangular Microchannels

Slip-flow and heat transfer in rectangular microchannels are studied numerically for constant wall temperature (T) and constant wall heat flux (H2) boundary conditions under thermally developing flow. Navier-Stokes and energy equations with velocity slip and temperature jump at the boundary are solved using finite volume method in a three dimensional cartesian coordinate system. A modified convection-diffusion coefficient at the wall-fluid interface is defined to incorporate the temperature-jump boundary condition. Validity of the numerical simulation procedure is stabilized. The effect of rarefaction on heat transfer in the entrance region is analyzed in detail. The velocity slip has an increasing effect on the Nusselt (Nu) number whereas temperature jump has a decreasing effect, and the combined effect could result increase or decrease in the Nu number. For the range of parameters considered, there could be high as 15% increase or low as 50% decrease in fully developed Nu is plausible for T thermal boundary condition while it could be high as 20% or low as 35% for H2 thermal boundary condition.

scholarly journals Constant-Wall-Temperature Nusselt Number in Micro and Nano-Channels1

2001 ◽  
Vol 124 (2) ◽  
pp. 356-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas G. Hadjiconstantinou ◽  
Olga Simek
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Nusselt Number ◽  
Heat Conduction ◽  
Flow Regime ◽  
Wall Temperature ◽  
Slip Flow ◽  
Constant Wall Temperature ◽  
Slip Flow Regime ◽  
Axial Heat ◽  
Axial Heat Conduction

We investigate the constant-wall-temperature convective heat-transfer characteristics of a model gaseous flow in two-dimensional micro and nano-channels under hydrodynamically and thermally fully developed conditions. Our investigation covers both the slip-flow regime 0⩽Kn⩽0.1, and most of the transition regime 0.1<Kn⩽10, where Kn, the Knudsen number, is defined as the ratio between the molecular mean free path and the channel height. We use slip-flow theory in the presence of axial heat conduction to calculate the Nusselt number in the range 0⩽Kn⩽0.2, and a stochastic molecular simulation technique known as the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) to calculate the Nusselt number in the range 0.02<Kn<2. Inclusion of the effects of axial heat conduction in the continuum model is necessary since small-scale internal flows are typically characterized by finite Peclet numbers. Our results show that the slip-flow prediction is in good agreement with the DSMC results for Kn⩽0.1, but also remains a good approximation beyond its expected range of applicability. We also show that the Nusselt number decreases monotonically with increasing Knudsen number in the fully accommodating case, both in the slip-flow and transition regimes. In the slip-flow regime, axial heat conduction is found to increase the Nusselt number; this effect is largest at Kn=0 and is of the order of 10 percent. Qualitatively similar results are obtained for slip-flow heat transfer in circular tubes.

Mixed Convection in a Vertical Parallel Plate Microchannel

2006 ◽  
Vol 129 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mete Avcı ◽  
Orhan Aydın
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Mixed Convection ◽  
Convective Heat Transfer ◽  
Convective Heat ◽  
Newtonian Fluid ◽  
Wall Temperature ◽  
Parallel Plate ◽  
Temperature Jump ◽  
Velocity Slip ◽  
Convection Parameter

In this study, fully developed mixed convective heat transfer of a Newtonian fluid in an open-ended vertical parallel plate microchannel is analytically investigated by taking the velocity slip and the temperature jump at the wall into account. The effects of the mixed convection parameter, Gr/Re, the Knudsen number, Kn, and the ratio of wall temperature difference, rT, on the microchannel hydrodynamic and thermal behaviors are determined. Finally, a Nu=f(Gr∕Re,Kn,rT) expression is developed.

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