TY - GEN
T1 - A separated-flow model for predicting flow boiling critical heat flux and pressure drop characteristics in microchannels
AU - Zhang, Tie Jun
AU - Chen, Siyu
AU - Wang, Evelyn N.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Two-phase microchannel cooling promises high heat flux removal for high-performance electronics and photonics. However, the heat transfer performance of flow boiling microchannels is limited by the critical heat flux (CHF) conditions. For variable heat inputs and variable fluid flows, it is essential to predict CHFs accurately for effective and efficient two-phase microchannel cooling. To characterize the CHF and pressure drop in flow boiling microchannels, a separated-flow model is proposed in this paper based on fundamental two-phase flow mass, energy, momentum conservation and wall energy conservation laws. With this theoretical framework, the relationship among liquid/vapor interfacial instability, two-phase flow characteristics and CHF is further studied. This mechanistic model also provides insight into the design and operational guidelines for advanced electronics and photonics cooling technologies.
AB - Two-phase microchannel cooling promises high heat flux removal for high-performance electronics and photonics. However, the heat transfer performance of flow boiling microchannels is limited by the critical heat flux (CHF) conditions. For variable heat inputs and variable fluid flows, it is essential to predict CHFs accurately for effective and efficient two-phase microchannel cooling. To characterize the CHF and pressure drop in flow boiling microchannels, a separated-flow model is proposed in this paper based on fundamental two-phase flow mass, energy, momentum conservation and wall energy conservation laws. With this theoretical framework, the relationship among liquid/vapor interfacial instability, two-phase flow characteristics and CHF is further studied. This mechanistic model also provides insight into the design and operational guidelines for advanced electronics and photonics cooling technologies.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84882358255&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1115/ICNMM2012-73046
DO - 10.1115/ICNMM2012-73046
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84882358255
SN - 9780791844793
T3 - ASME 2012 10th Int. Conf. on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels Collocated with the ASME 2012 Heat Transfer Summer Conf. and the ASME 2012 Fluids Engineering Division Sum, ICNMM 2012
SP - 39
EP - 48
BT - ASME 2012 10th Int. Conf. on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels Collocated with the ASME 2012 Heat Transfer Summer Conference and the ASME 2012 Fluids Engineering Division Sum, ICNMM 2012
T2 - ASME 2012 10th Int. Conf. on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, ICNMM 2012 Collocated with the ASME 2012 Heat Transfer Summer Conf. and the ASME 2012 Fluids Engineering Division Sum, ICNMM 2012
Y2 - 8 July 2012 through 12 July 2012
ER -