Boiling in microchannels: a review of experiment and theory

By John Richard Thome. 2004

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Subfields: Computational Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering

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Refrigerant flow boiling heat transfer in parallel microchannels as a function of local vapor quality (2008, background): “Introduction Boiling heat transfer in microchannels has received significant attention due to its capability for dissipating high heat fluxes especially in the thermal management of microelectronics [1, 2, 3, 4], while at the same time minimizing temperature gradients across the chip [5].”
Saturated flow boiling heat transfer and pressure drop in silicon microchannel arrays (2008, background): “In spite of these appealing attributes, the complex nature of convective boiling and two-phase flow in microchannels is still not well understood and this has impeded their wide implementation in practical applications [1–4].”
A review of small heat pipes for electronics (2016, background): “In general, a size classification is defined as follows [11, 12]: micro-channels (50 to 600 μm), mini-channels (600 μm to 3 mm) and conventional channels (Dh > 3 mm).”
History, Advances, and Challenges in Liquid Flow and Flow Boiling Heat Transfer in Microchannels: A Critical Review (2012, background): “[8–11]).”
Boiling heat transfer in a hydrofoil-based micro pin fin heat sink (2007, background): “This is not surprising, and the linkage between flow patterns and heat transfer mechanisms is well documented in numerous archival publications [12,14,18, 19 ,21,22,106].”
Prediction of the onset of nucleate boiling in microchannel flow (2005, background): “In spite of these attributes, the complex nature of convective flow boiling in microchannel heat sinks is still not well-understood, hindering their application in industry practice [1, 2, 3, 4].”
Effects of heat flux, mass flux, vapor quality, and saturation temperature on flow boiling heat transfer in microchannels (2009, background): “Flow boiling in microchannels has been investigated in recent years due to its capability of handling the high heat fluxes encountered in the cooling of electronic components (Garimella and Sobhan, 2003, Thome, 2004, Garimella, Singhal and Liu, 2006).”
Critical heat flux for subcooled flow boiling in micro-channel heat sinks (2009, background): “For example, Thome suggested diameters of 100–600 lm be classified as micro-channels [17].”
A composite heat transfer correlation for saturated flow boiling in small channels (2009, background): “Existing heat transfer correlations are unable to accurately predict the flow boiling heat transfer coefficient in small channels over a wide range of operating parameters [1, 4, 11] as the heat”
Two-Phase Microchannel Heat Sinks: Theory, Applications, and Limitations (2011, unknown): “From the standpoint of absolute hydraulic diameter scale, it would appear that " milli-channel " is a more appropriate designation since most two-phase microchannel heat sinks of practical interest possess diameters in the range of 0.1–0.6 mm rather than a micrometer [99].”