TY - GEN
T1 - Two-phase flow oscillations in microchannel convective boiling
AU - Lee, Man
AU - Lee, Yi Kuen
AU - Zohar, Yitshak
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - A thermal microsystem with integrated heaters, pressure and temperature microsensors, has been fabricated to study local temperature and pressure fluctuations occurring in forced convective boiling in microchannels. The observed two-phase flows can be classified into two patterns: oscillating liquid/vapour interface and liquid burst flow; both leading to unsteady temperature and pressure fields. FFT power spectra of the measured signals are correlated with flow visualizations to analyse the two-phase flow modes. The dominant fluctuation frequency of each flow mode increases with input power; and, under similar conditions, the frequency of the periodically oscillating liquid/vapour interface is higher than the dominant frequency of the liquid bursts. Dimensional analysis is performed to derive empirical correlations for the dimensionless fluctuation frequency, Strouhal number, for both flow patterns.
AB - A thermal microsystem with integrated heaters, pressure and temperature microsensors, has been fabricated to study local temperature and pressure fluctuations occurring in forced convective boiling in microchannels. The observed two-phase flows can be classified into two patterns: oscillating liquid/vapour interface and liquid burst flow; both leading to unsteady temperature and pressure fields. FFT power spectra of the measured signals are correlated with flow visualizations to analyse the two-phase flow modes. The dominant fluctuation frequency of each flow mode increases with input power; and, under similar conditions, the frequency of the periodically oscillating liquid/vapour interface is higher than the dominant frequency of the liquid bursts. Dimensional analysis is performed to derive empirical correlations for the dimensionless fluctuation frequency, Strouhal number, for both flow patterns.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:52249083904
SN - 1424409519
SN - 9781424409518
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
SP - 635
EP - 638
BT - Proceedings - CIS Workshops 2007, 2007 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security Workshops, CISW 2007
T2 - 20th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, MEMS 2007
Y2 - 21 January 2007 through 25 January 2007
ER -