Bubble growth,departure and the following flow pattern evolution during flow boiling in a mini-tube |
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| Authors: | X. Fu P. Zhang C.J. Huang R.Z. Wang |
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| Affiliation: | 1. State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, PR China;2. Kunming Institute of Physics, Kunming 650223, PR China;3. Xi’an Jiaotong University Suzhou Academy, Suzhou 215123, PR China;1. Institute of Thermal Engineering, School of Mechanical, Electronic and Control Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China;2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Huston, Huston, TX 77204-4792, USA;1. IAV GmbH, DE-10587 Berlin, Germany;2. Heat and Mass Transfer Laboratory (LTCM), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland;1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Energetica, Nucleare e del Controllo Ambientale, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy;2. Laboratory of Heat and Mass Transfer (LTCM), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland;1. Dept. of Energy Science and Technology, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan;2. J-PARC Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan;3. Institute of Advanced Energy, Kyoto University, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan;4. Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Kanagawa 229-8510, Japan |
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| Abstract: | In the present study, the bubble growth, departure and the following flow pattern evolution during flow boiling in the mini-tube were visualized and quantitatively investigated, along with the simultaneous measurement of the local heat transfer coefficient around a specified nucleation site. Liquid nitrogen was employed as the working fluid and the test section was a segment of vertically upward quartz glass tube with the inner diameter range of 1.3–1.5 mm, which was coated by a layer of transparent ITO film as the heater on the outer surface. The growth rates of bubbles had similar and constant growth rate in two periods of time, i.e., before and after the bubbles departing from the nucleation site, which indicated the bubble growth was primarily governed by the inertial force. The bubble departure diameter and bubble period were investigated and the corresponding correlation was obtained based on the experimental data, which showed that the tube size of the mini-tube had no notable effect on the bubble departure and the trend of the bubble departure was similar to that in macro-tubes. Whereas the following flow pattern evolution was apparently confined due to the size effect, which presented desirable heat transfer performance in mini-tubes. The heat transfer coefficients for different flow patterns along the mini-tube were obtained in terms of bubbly, slug, annular flow and the flow regimes of flow reversal and post dryout. It was found that the dominant heat transfer mechanism was the liquid film evaporation which offered desirable heat transfer capability. The heat transfer performance would be deteriorated in the post dryout regime, while flow reversal could somewhat enhance the heat transfer upstream of the nucleation site. Boiling curves around the specified nucleation site were recorded and analyzed based on the recorded flow patterns. |
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