This paper presents effects of heating directions on heat transfer performance of R134 a flow boiling in micro-channel heat sink. The heat sink has 30 parallel rectangular channels with cross-sectional dimensions of 5...This paper presents effects of heating directions on heat transfer performance of R134 a flow boiling in micro-channel heat sink. The heat sink has 30 parallel rectangular channels with cross-sectional dimensions of 500mm width 500mm depth and 30 mm length. The experimental operation condition ranges of the heat flux and the mass flux were 13.48 to 82.25 W/cm^2 and 373.3 to 1244.4 kg/m^2 s respectively. The vapor quality ranged from 0.07 to 0.93. The heat transfer coefficients of top heating and bottom heating both were up to 25 k W/m^2 K. Two dominate transfer mechanisms of nucleate boiling and convection boiling were observed according to boiling curves. The experimental results indicated that the heat transfer coefficient of bottom heating was 13.9% higher than top heating in low heat flux, while in high heat flux, the heat transfer coefficient of bottom heating was 9.9%.higher than the top heating, because bubbles were harder to divorce the heating wall. And a modified correlation was provided to predict heat transfer of top heating.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51376019)
文摘This paper presents effects of heating directions on heat transfer performance of R134 a flow boiling in micro-channel heat sink. The heat sink has 30 parallel rectangular channels with cross-sectional dimensions of 500mm width 500mm depth and 30 mm length. The experimental operation condition ranges of the heat flux and the mass flux were 13.48 to 82.25 W/cm^2 and 373.3 to 1244.4 kg/m^2 s respectively. The vapor quality ranged from 0.07 to 0.93. The heat transfer coefficients of top heating and bottom heating both were up to 25 k W/m^2 K. Two dominate transfer mechanisms of nucleate boiling and convection boiling were observed according to boiling curves. The experimental results indicated that the heat transfer coefficient of bottom heating was 13.9% higher than top heating in low heat flux, while in high heat flux, the heat transfer coefficient of bottom heating was 9.9%.higher than the top heating, because bubbles were harder to divorce the heating wall. And a modified correlation was provided to predict heat transfer of top heating.
