Abstract
Forced liquid convection microchannel cooling systems present an alternative to the forced air-convection schemes and offer higher thermal performance. With regard to forced liquid convection, two-phase convection offers superior performance to liquid only convection. This paper presents results developed from a bubble heat transfer growth model applied to microchannel geometry and incorporates these results into a model for the averaged bubble heat transfer coefficient. Results are shown for water and FC-72. The bubble heat transfer model shows that the bubble growth rates and subsequent averaged heat transfer coefficient are functions of the film thickness between the bubble and the microchannel wall, the slip velocity between the bubble and the fluid comprising the bubble base, the wall heat flux and the subsequent liquid superheat in the microchannel just upstream of the bubble leading edge.
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