A systematic review on the heat transfer investigation of the flow boiling process

TLDR: A systematic review of the numerical and experimental investigation of the flow boiling process has been carried out in this article, where more than a hundred research articles were selected from the publications of Elsevier, SpringerLink, Taylor & Francis, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and analyzed.

Abstract: In the past few years, flow boiling has achieved a lot of attention in many industrial applications and thermal systems. To enhance the efficiency of the thermal systems, various working fluids like water, nanofluids, nanorefrigerants, etc. were used and the investigations were carried out using different operating conditions. The main purpose of this literature review is to study the heat transfer rate in different working fluids in the process of flow boiling. In this study, the systematic review of the numerical and experimental investigation of the flow boiling process has been carried out. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) approach given by Denyer and Tranfield was utilized in this study. More than a hundred research articles were selected from the publications of Elsevier, SpringerLink, Taylor & Francis, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and analyzed. It was concluded that the previous studies focused on the flow boiling heat transfer in different working fluids and the development of new correlations between the input and output parameters in the flow boiling investigation. Finally, the concluding remarks on the review of the numerical and experimental investigation of the flow boiling process are given.