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Thermo‐capillary driven flow in macrolayer at high wall heat fluxes

Kuo‐Tong Ma (Department of Engineering and System Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China)
Chin Pan (Department of Engineering and System Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China)

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow

ISSN: 0961-5539

Article publication date: 1 November 1999

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Abstract

The present work is to investigate nucleate boiling heat transfer at high heat fluxes, which is characterized by the existence of macrolayer. Two‐region equations are proposed to simulate both thermo‐capillary driven flow in the liquid layer and heat conduction in the solid wall. The numerical simulation results can clearly describe the activities of several multi vorticies in the macrolayer. These vorticies and evaporation at the vapor‐liquid interface constitute a very efficient heat transfer mechanism to explain the high heat transfer coefficient of nucleate boiling heat transfer near CHF. This study also explores the flow pattern of macrolayer with a high conducting solid wall, e.g. copper, and hence the temperature is uniform at the liquid‐solid interface, and the heat fluxes and the evaporation coefficient are found to have significant effect on flow pattern in the liquid layer. Furthermore, a parameter “evaporation fraction” as well as “aspect ratio” is proposed as an index to investigate the thermo‐capillary driven flow system. The model prediction agrees reasonably well with the experimental data in the literature.

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Ma, K. and Pan, C. (1999), "Thermo‐capillary driven flow in macrolayer at high wall heat fluxes", International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. 9 No. 7, pp. 788-808. https://doi.org/10.1108/09615539910291163

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