dc.contributor.author | Kandlikar, Satish | |
dc.contributor.author | Balasubramanian, Prabhu | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-11-04T16:49:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2008-11-04T16:49:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2004 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0145-7632 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1850/7331 | |
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dc.description.abstract | Flow boiling in mini- and microchannels offer very high heat transfer capabilities and find
applications in many emerging technologies, such as electronics cooling and fuel cells. The low flow
rate employed in such geometries, coupled with the small flow channels, often results in a laminar
flow with all flow as liquid. Since the single-phase flow with all liquid is in the laminar range, the
flow boiling correlations developed for conventional tubes with an inner diameter larger than 3 mm
and turbulent flow need to be carefully reviewed. In the present work, flow boiling correlation for
large diameter tubes developed by Kandlikar [1, 2] is modified for flow boiling in minichannels by
using the laminar single-phase heat transfer coefficient for all liquid flow. The correlation is also
extended for flow boiling in microchannels using the nucleate boiling as the dominant part of the
original correlation. The trends in heat transfer coefficient versus quality are compared in the
laminar and deep laminar regions in minichannels and microchannels. Excellent agreement is
obtained between predicted values and experimental data. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Vol. 25 | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | No. 3 | en_US |
dc.title | An Extension of the flow boiling correlation to transition, laminar and deep laminar flows in minichannels and microchannels | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01457630490280425 | |