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An experimental study of flow boiling instability in a single microchannel
Guodong Wang,Ping Cheng +1 more
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In this article, a simultaneous visualization and measurement study has been carried out to investigate stable and unstable flow boiling phenomena of deionized water in a single microchannel having a hydraulic diameter of 155 µm with a bottom Pyrex glass wall.About:
This article is published in International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer.The article was published on 2008-12-01. It has received 89 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Microchannel & Two-phase flow.read more
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Characteristics of heat transfer and fluid flow in microtube and microchannel using conventional fluids and nanofluids: A review
TL;DR: In this paper, a review summarizes numerous researches on two topics; the first section focuses on studying the fluid flow and heat transfer behavior of different types of microtubes (MT) and microchannel (MC) at different orientations.
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Flow boiling instabilities in microchannels and their promising solutions – A review
TL;DR: A comprehensive review of literatures has been presented that highlights the problems of two-phase flow boiling and its suppression techniques as discussed by the authors, where the broad aspects that have been covered are overview of instabilities, their causes, consequences and suppression techniques.
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Fundamental issues, mechanisms and models of flow boiling heat transfer in microscale channels
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review on the fundamental and frontier research of flow boiling heat transfer, mechanisms and prediction methods including models and correlations for heat transfer in micro-scale channels.
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Review of two-phase flow instabilities in macro- and micro-channel systems
Lucas E. O'Neill,Issam Mudawar +1 more
TL;DR: A systematic overview of all key two-phase instabilities focusing on the fundamental mechanisms leading to their occurrence is provided, with emphasis on how these mechanisms may change depending on whether flow may be classified as macro- or micro-channel.
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Microscale study of mechanisms of heat transfer during flow boiling in a microchannel
Sajjad Bigham,Saeed Moghaddam +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the microscale physics of heat transfer events in flow boiling of FC-72 in a microchannel and provided new physical insight on the nature of heattransfer processes during bubbles growth and flow through the microchannel.
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Review of two-phase flow instability
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the causes and mechanisms of thermal-hydrodynamic instabilities in boiling flow in a water-cooled reactor, an evaporator, or an electronic cooling system.
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Measurement and prediction of pressure drop in two-phase micro-channel heat sinks
Weilin Qu,Issam Mudawar +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored hydrodynamic instability and pressure drop in a water-cooled two-phase micro-channel heat sink containing 21 parallel 231 × 713 μm micro-channels.
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Effects of inlet/outlet configurations on flow boiling instability in parallel microchannels
TL;DR: In this article, a simultaneous visualization and measurement study has been carried out to investigate effects of inlet/outlet configurations on flow boiling instabilities in parallel microchannels, having a length of 30 mm and a hydraulic diameter of 186 μm.
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Visualization and measurements of periodic boiling in silicon microchannels
Huiying Wu,Ping Cheng +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a simultaneous visualization and measurement investigation has been carried out on flow boiling of water in parallel silicon microchannels of trapezoidal cross-section, and large-amplitude/long-period fluctuations with time in wall temperatures, fluid temperatures and fluid pressures, were measured for the first time during flow boiling in the micro-channels.
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Boiling instability in parallel silicon microchannels at different heat flux
Huiying Wu,Ping Cheng +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a series of experiments have been carried out to study different boiling instability modes of water flowing in microchannels at various heat flux and mass flux with the outlet of the channels at atmospheric pressure.
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