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Title: 1-D modelling and 3-D simulation of confined bubble formation and formation and pressure fluctuations during flow boiling in a microchannel with a rectangular cross-section of high aspect ratio
Authors: Gedupudi, S
Zu, YQ
Karayiannis, TG
Kenning, DBR
Yan, YY
Issue Date: 2009
Publisher: ASME
Citation: In Proceedings of the 7th International ASME Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels, Pohang, South Korea: 1087 - 1094, June 22-24, 2009
Abstract: A simple 1-D model with low requirements for computing time is required to investigate parametric influences on the potentially adverse effects of pressure fluctuations driven by confined vapour bubble growth in microchannel evaporative cooling systems operating at high heat fluxes. A model is developed in this paper for the particular conditions of a channel of rectangular cross-section with high aspect ratio with a constant inlet flow rate (zero upstream compressibility). (The model will later be extended to the conditions of finite upstream compressibility that lead to transient flow reversal). Some parametric trends predicted by the model are presented. The simplifying assumptions in the model are examined in the light of a 3-D simulation by a commercial CFD code, described in an accompanying paper by the same authors. The predictions of pressure changes are in reasonable agreement. It is suggested that the 1-D model will be a useful design tool.
Description: Copyright @ 2009 ASME
URI: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6399
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ICNMM2009-82119
ISBN: 978-0-7918-4349-9
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