Mesoscopic Numerical Study on Flow Boiling Heat Transfer Performance in Channels With Multiple Rectangular Heaters

LI Yingxue; WANG Haoyuan; LOU Qin

doi:10.21656/1000-0887.420325

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LI Yingxue, WANG Haoyuan, LOU Qin. Mesoscopic Numerical Study on Flow Boiling Heat Transfer Performance in Channels With Multiple Rectangular Heaters[J]. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 2022, 43(7): 727-739. doi: 10.21656/1000-0887.420325

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Mesoscopic Numerical Study on Flow Boiling Heat Transfer Performance in Channels With Multiple Rectangular Heaters

doi: 10.21656/1000-0887.420325

LI Yingxue^{1, 2},
WANG Haoyuan^{1, 2},
LOU Qin^{1, 2
,}

1.
School of Energy and Power Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, P.R.China
2.
Shanghai Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer in Power Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, P.R.China

Received Date: 2021-10-28
Rev Recd Date: 2022-02-28
Publish Date: 2022-07-15

Abstract

Abstract

The flow boiling phenomenon in a channel with multiple rectangular heaters under a constant wall temperature was numerically studied with the lattice Boltzmann method. The effects of spacings between heaters, heater lengths and heater surface wettabilities on the bubble morphology, the bubble area and the heat flux on the heater surface, were studied. The results show that, the bubble growth rate increases with the spacing between heaters. The larger the bubble area is, the earlier the nucleated bubbles will leave the heater surface. The corresponding boiling heat transfer performance increases by 12% with the spacing between heaters growing from 250 lattices to 1 000 lattices. On the other hand, the longer the heater length is, the earlier the bubble will nucleate and leave the heater surface, and the better the boiling heat transfer performance will be. The boiling heat transfer performance increases by 13% with the heater length rising from 16 lattices to 22 lattices. In addition, the bubble nucleates later on the hydrophilic surface than on the hydrophobic surface. Compared with the hydrophilic surface, the hydrophobic surface retains residual bubbles after the leaving of bubbles from the heater. The average heat flux and the bubble area of the hydrophilic surface are less than those of the hydrophobic surface. With the contact angle changing from 77° to 120°, the heat transfer performance increases by 26%. Finally, the orthogonal test results indicate that, the wettability of the heat exchanger surface has the greatest influence on the flow boiling heat transfer performance, while the heater length has the least influence.
- lattice Boltzmann method,
- flow boiling,
- multiple rectangular heaters

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