Study of bubble growth in water pool boiling through synchronized,infrared thermometry and high-speed video |
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Authors: | Craig Gerardi Jacopo Buongiorno Lin-wen Hu Thomas McKrell |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA;2. School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, PR China |
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Abstract: | High-speed video and infrared thermometry were used to obtain time- and space-resolved information on bubble nucleation and heat transfer in pool boiling of water. The bubble departure diameter and frequency, growth and wait times, and nucleation site density were directly measured for a thin, electrically-heated, indium–tin-oxide surface, laid on a sapphire substrate. These data are very valuable for validation of two-phase flow and heat transfer models, including computational fluid dynamics with interface tracking methods. Here, detailed experimental bubble-growth data from individual nucleation sites were used to evaluate simple, commonly-used, but poorly-validated, bubble-growth and nucleate-boiling heat-transfer models. The agreement between the data and the models was found to be reasonably good. Also, the heat flux partitioning model, to which our data on nucleation site density, bubble departure diameter and frequency were directly fed, suggests that transient conduction following bubble departure is the dominant contribution to nucleate-boiling heat transfer. |
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