Review of pool boiling enhancement by surface modification
By Gangtao Liang, I. Mudawar. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2019
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Abstract This paper provides a comprehensive review of published articles addressing passive enhancement of pool boiling using surface modification techniques. They include macroscale, microscale, and nanoscale surfaces, as well as multiscale (hybrid-scale), and hybrid-wettability techniques. Different enhancement methods are assessed in terms of underlying fluid routing mechanisms and ability to achieve three distinct heat transfer goals: eliminating incipient boiling hysteresis, increasing nucleate boiling heat transfer coefficient, and ameliorating critical heat flux (CHF), especially for inert dielectric coolants that are both highly wetting and possess relatively poor thermophysical properties. While different enhancement scales are shown to provide different degrees of success in achieving the three goals, it is shown that both microscale and nanoscale surface features are susceptible to blockage, resulting in deterioration of the enhancement over time. This review also points to scarcity of sufficiently sized databases for a given enhancement scheme in terms of fluid type, surface material, size, and orientation, enhancement shape, pattern, and scale, and operating pressure. This renders available findings less-than-adequate tools for design of practical cooling systems.
Subfields: Computational Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering
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In Computational Mechanics
- Gangtao Liang
- I. Mudawar
- Sung-Min Kim
- Suresh V. Garimella
- Wei Qu
- Jaeseon Lee
- Yoav Peles
- Satish G. Kandlikar
In Mechanical Engineering
- Gangtao Liang
- I. Mudawar
- Sung-Min Kim
- Satish G. Kandlikar
- Wei Qu
- Suresh V. Garimella
- Jaeseon Lee
- Yoav Peles
Citations in the corpus
- Review of channel flow boiling enhancement by surface modification, and instability suppression schemes (2020, methodology): “They include fluid mechanics of liquid drop impact on a liquid film [45] and on a heated wall [46], spray cooling in the single-phase and nucleate boiling regimes (including CHF) [47], and in high temperature boiling regimes and quenching applications [48], mechanisms and models of pool boiling CHF ”