Visualization of Confined Jet Impingement With Boiling Using Time-Resolved Stereo-PIV

Author(s):  
Matthew J. Rau ◽  
Tianqi Guo ◽  
Pavlos P. Vlachos ◽  
Suresh V. Garimella

Two-phase liquid-vapor flow field measurements of confined jet impingement with boiling are performed using time-resolved stereo particle image velocimetry (stereo-PIV). A single circular jet of water, impinges normally from a 3.75 mm-diameter orifice onto a submerged circular heat source at an orifice-to-target spacing of 4 jet diameters. The impinging jet outflow including the vapor generated at the heat source are confined between the jet orifice plate and the bottom test section wall. Fluorescent seeding particles (10 μm in diameter) and time-resolved PIV measurements (taken at a sampling rate of 750 Hz) allow for imaging of the instantaneous interactions between the liquid and vapor structures. Liquid-phase velocity vectors within the two-phase flow field (with high vapor fractions) are presented as a function of heat flux at jet Reynolds numbers of 5,000 and 15,000 and contrasted with single-phase flow. The time-resolved measurements are used to highlight the influence of the vapor phase on the liquid flow field. It is found that bubble formation effectively blocks the developing wall-jet flow on the heated surface. The resulting liquid flow field in the confinement gap is dominated by vapor motion rather than by the entrainment from the developing wall jet.

Author(s):  
Ryan Lewis ◽  
Hayley Schneider ◽  
Yunda Wang ◽  
Ray Radebaugh ◽  
Y. C. Lee

Micro cryogenic coolers (MCCs) operating in the Joule-Thomson cycle with mixed refrigerants offer an attractive way to decrease the size, cost, and power draw required for cryogenic cooling. Recent studies of MCCs with mixed refrigerants have, when employing pre-cooling, shown pulsating flow-rates and oscillating temperatures, which have been linked to the refrigerant flow regime in the MCC. In this study we investigate those flow regimes. Using a high-speed camera and optical microscopy, it is found that the pulsations in flow correspond to an abrupt switch from single-phase vapor flow to single-phase liquid flow, followed by 2-phase flow in the form of bubbles, liquid slugs, and liquid slug-annular rings. After this period of 2-phase flow, the refrigerant transitions back to single-phase vapor flow for the cycle to repeat. Under different pre-cooling temperatures, the mole fraction of the vapor-phase refrigerant, as measured by molar flow-rate, agrees reasonably well with the quality of the refrigerant at that temperature as calculated by an equation of state. The frequency of pulsation increases with liquid fraction in the refrigerant, and the volume of liquid in each pulse only weakly increases with increasing liquid fraction. The cooling power of the liquid-flow is up to a factor of 7 greater than that of the 2-phase flows and single-phase vapor flow.


Author(s):  
Khaled J. Hammad

The turbulent two-phase flow arising from the normal impingement of a round free-surface water jet on a horizontal air-water interface was experimentally studied. Due to the weakly viscous nature of the flow system under consideration, external perturbations or small variations in jet inflow conditions can lead to drastically different flow field characteristics under seemingly similar test conditions. In the current study, a fully developed turbulent jet, exiting a long pipe, ensured properly characterized inflow conditions. The study considered two jet inflow conditions; one entrained air and created a bubbly two-phase flow field while the other did not. Particle image velocimetry (PIV) was used to characterize the flow field beneath the interface, with and without air entrainment, for various nozzle-to-interface separation distances. Turbulent velocity fields of the continuous-phase and dispersed-phase were simultaneously measured in the developing flow region and presented using Reynolds decomposition into mean and fluctuating components. The mean and RMS velocities of the two-phase flow field were compared with velocity measurements obtained under single-phase conditions.


2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Luke ◽  
Mark Eagar ◽  
Michael Sears ◽  
Scott Felt ◽  
Bob Prozan

2014 ◽  
Vol 541-542 ◽  
pp. 1288-1291
Author(s):  
Zhi Feng Dong ◽  
Quan Jin Kuang ◽  
Yong Zheng Gu ◽  
Rong Yao ◽  
Hong Wei Wang

Calculation fluid dynamics software Fluent was used to conduct three-dimensional numerical simulation on gas-liquid two-phase flow field in a wet flue gas desulfurization scrubber. The k-ε model and SIMPLE computing were adopted in the analysis. The numerical simulation results show that the different gas entrance angles lead to internal changes of gas-liquid two-phase flow field, which provides references for reasonable parameter design of entrance angle in the scrubber.


2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew R. Pearson ◽  
Jamal Seyed-Yagoobi

Heat pipes are well known as simple and effective heat transport devices, utilizing two-phase flow and the capillary phenomenon to remove heat. However, the generation of capillary pressure requires a wicking structure and the overall heat transport capacity of the heat pipe is generally limited by the amount of capillary pressure generation that the wicking structure can achieve. Therefore, to increase the heat transport capacity, the capillary phenomenon must be either augmented or replaced by some other pumping technique. Electrohydrodynamic (EHD) conduction pumping can be readily used to pump a thin film of a dielectric liquid along a surface, using electrodes that are embedded into the surface. In this study, two two-phase heat transport devices are created. The first device transports the heat in a linear direction. The second device transports the heat in a radial direction from a central heat source. The radial pumping configuration provides several advantages. Most notably, the heat source is wetted with fresh liquid from all directions, thereby reducing the amount of distance that must be travelled by the working fluid. The power required to operate the EHD conduction pumps is a trivial amount relative to the heat that is transported.


2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simo A. Mäkiharju ◽  
Celine Gabillet ◽  
Bu-Geun Paik ◽  
Natasha A. Chang ◽  
Marc Perlin ◽  
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