Analysis and active control of pressure-drop flow instabilities in boiling microchannel systems

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History, Advances, and Challenges in Liquid Flow and Flow Boiling Heat Transfer in Microchannels: A Critical Review (2012, methodology): “[166] proposed an active oscillatory mass flow controller to reduce the flow oscillations.”
A comprehensive review on microchannel heat sinks for electronics cooling (2023, background): “Zhang et al [131] observed by experiments that if the bubble nucleation in the microchannel was difficult and the fluid in the channel had a high superheat, once the bubble nucleation formed, a large amount of gas would lead to rapid bubble expansion.”
Review of channel flow boiling enhancement by surface modification, and instability suppression schemes (2020, background): “[244] pointed out that use of inlet restriction to suppress instability can greatly increase pressure drop, often beyond capabilities of micro or mini-pumps used in cooling appli-”
Surface Structure Enhanced Microchannel Flow Boiling (2016, background): “These flow instabilities which can be triggered by several mechanisms including explosive bubble expansion [7], upstream compressibility [8,9] and density wave oscillation [10] can lead to large”
Review and Projections of Integrated Cooling Systems for Three-Dimensional Integrated Circuits (2014, background): “Subsequent work showed that the instabilities can be reduced by introducing pressure drop elements (flow restrictors) at the entrance, and providing nucleation cavities in the microchannels [44–46].”