1. A model to predict the effect of surface wettability on critical heat flux
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Stéphane Colasson, Nadia Caney, Rémi Bertossi, Hai Trieu Phan, Philippe Marty, Laboratoire des Écoulements Géophysiques et Industriels [Grenoble] (LEGI), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Innovation pour les Technologies des Energies Nouvelles et les nanomatériaux (LITEN), Institut National de L'Energie Solaire (INES), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Systèmes Thermiques (GRETh/LETH), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF), and Laboratoire Systèmes Thermiques (Greth/LETH)
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Materials science ,General Chemical Engineering ,Thermal resistance ,wettability ,Thermodynamics ,02 engineering and technology ,Heat transfer coefficient ,01 natural sciences ,010305 fluids & plasmas ,Physics::Fluid Dynamics ,Boiling ,0103 physical sciences ,Contact angle ,Critical heat flux ,Thermal contact ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics ,Heat flux ,Pool boiling ,Heat transfer ,[PHYS.MECA.THER]Physics [physics]/Mechanics [physics]/Thermics [physics.class-ph] ,[SPI.MECA.THER]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Mechanics [physics.med-ph]/Thermics [physics.class-ph] ,0210 nano-technology ,Nucleate boiling - Abstract
International audience; Critical heat flux (CHF) in pool boiling experiments corresponds to the heat flux at which a vapor film is formed on the heated surface resulting from the replacement of liquid by vapor adjacent to this surface. Poor thermal conductivity of vapor can severely deteriorate heat transfer. It is important that systems operate below this limit which is a strong limitation to heat transfer due to the huge increase of the thermal resistance near the wall. The concept of macro- and micro-contact angles has been introduced in a previous paper (Phan et al., 2010 [28]) to describe the bubble growth processes. In this paper, an explicit relation between the bubble departure diameter and the contact angle has been presented. Based on these results, we propose a model of critical heat flux, taking into account the effects of the wettability of the fluid, whose property is known to strongly influence boiling heat transfer. A new correlation for CHF, dependent on the contact angle, is proposed. It is found in fair agreement with existing experimental results concerning subcooled boiling to describe the variation of CHF with wettability.
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- 2012
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