Abstract
Critical heat flux (CHF) during flow boiling in silicon microchannels (H=250μm, W=200μm, L=10mm) using self-excited and self-sustained high frequency two-phase oscillations is studied both experimentally and theoretically. Tests are performed on deionized water over a mass flux range of 200–1350kg/m2s. An enhanced CHF of 1020W/cm2 is achieved experimentally at a mass flux of 1350kg/m2s in the present study. Since no existing CHF models and correlations on parallel mini/microchannels considered high frequency two-phase oscillations, hence are not applicable to predict CHF in the present microchannel configuration. Adopting Helmholtz and Rayleigh instability theories and based on experimental study of liquid thin film dry-out phenomena in two-phase oscillations, a semi-theoretical CHF model is proposed. The proposed theoretical predictions show satisfactory agreement with experimental data with a reasonable low mean absolute error (MAE) of 25–32%.
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