The paper presents the next step within multiyear fruitless efforts of the author to overcome the absurd situation in boiling heat transfer research. The focus is made on the problem of the characteristic length of th...The paper presents the next step within multiyear fruitless efforts of the author to overcome the absurd situation in boiling heat transfer research. The focus is made on the problem of the characteristic length of the process most clearly exhibiting the consequences of half a century ignoring the basic MTD （Model ＂theater of director＂）, the UC （Universal correlation） and some other boiling fundamentals. Echoing control of boiling heat transfer by nucleation, the MTD-UC identifies universal characteristic length, the AER （Average effective radius） of nucleation sites, equally workable at the macro- and microscale. Inefficiency of the generally accepted, so called MTA （theater of actors） is particularly pronounced just in the confusion with the characteristic length. Traditional and potential candidates, departure diameter of vapor bubble and transverse internal size of the channel hardly can be adjusted to independence of developed boiling HTC on mass acceleration, subcooling, liquid convection and the heating surface geometry. At the same time, even such a problem has not prevented many authors to develop tens or even hundreds of helpless MTA-based correlations. The ignoring the MTD-UC-AER has also led to the incompleteness of the standard boiling heat transfer experiment, which is usually done without studying nucleation sites （there are available only very few comprehensive experimental works including the data on the AER）. The only exception was made for the problem of boiling heat transfer enhancement： over the past decades enhanced boiling surfaces were developed in direct accordance with the principle defined by the MTD-UC （just through the AER）. Another thing is that the basic role of the MTD-UC-AER in substantial progress of the relevant R＆D activities passed over in silence in the corresponding publications. Enviable unity and coherence of heat transfer community in preventing real scientific debate on the problem is also remarked.展开更多
The validity of single-fluid model in inertial confinement fusion simulations is studied by comparing the results of the multi- and single-fluid models. The multi-fluid model includes the effects of collision and inte...The validity of single-fluid model in inertial confinement fusion simulations is studied by comparing the results of the multi- and single-fluid models. The multi-fluid model includes the effects of collision and interpenetration between fluid species. By simulating the collision of fluid species, steady-state shock propagation into the thin DT gas and expansion of hohlraum Au wall heated by lasers, the results show that the validity of single-fluid model is strongly dependent on the ratio of the characteristic length of the simulated system to the particle mean free path. When the characteristic length L is one order larger than the mean free path A, the single-fluid model＇s results are found to be in good agreement with the multi-fluid model＇s simulations, and the modeling of single-fluid remains valid. If the value of L/A is lower than 10, the interpenetration between fluid species is significant, and the single-fluid simulations show some unphysical results; while the multi-fluid model can describe well the interpenetration and mix phenomena, and give more reasonable results.展开更多
文摘The paper presents the next step within multiyear fruitless efforts of the author to overcome the absurd situation in boiling heat transfer research. The focus is made on the problem of the characteristic length of the process most clearly exhibiting the consequences of half a century ignoring the basic MTD （Model ＂theater of director＂）, the UC （Universal correlation） and some other boiling fundamentals. Echoing control of boiling heat transfer by nucleation, the MTD-UC identifies universal characteristic length, the AER （Average effective radius） of nucleation sites, equally workable at the macro- and microscale. Inefficiency of the generally accepted, so called MTA （theater of actors） is particularly pronounced just in the confusion with the characteristic length. Traditional and potential candidates, departure diameter of vapor bubble and transverse internal size of the channel hardly can be adjusted to independence of developed boiling HTC on mass acceleration, subcooling, liquid convection and the heating surface geometry. At the same time, even such a problem has not prevented many authors to develop tens or even hundreds of helpless MTA-based correlations. The ignoring the MTD-UC-AER has also led to the incompleteness of the standard boiling heat transfer experiment, which is usually done without studying nucleation sites （there are available only very few comprehensive experimental works including the data on the AER）. The only exception was made for the problem of boiling heat transfer enhancement： over the past decades enhanced boiling surfaces were developed in direct accordance with the principle defined by the MTD-UC （just through the AER）. Another thing is that the basic role of the MTD-UC-AER in substantial progress of the relevant R＆D activities passed over in silence in the corresponding publications. Enviable unity and coherence of heat transfer community in preventing real scientific debate on the problem is also remarked.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.11105013,10935003,11275031,11205017,and11075023,the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant No.2013CB834110,the National High-Tech R&D Program(863 Program)under Grant No.2012AA01A303
文摘The validity of single-fluid model in inertial confinement fusion simulations is studied by comparing the results of the multi- and single-fluid models. The multi-fluid model includes the effects of collision and interpenetration between fluid species. By simulating the collision of fluid species, steady-state shock propagation into the thin DT gas and expansion of hohlraum Au wall heated by lasers, the results show that the validity of single-fluid model is strongly dependent on the ratio of the characteristic length of the simulated system to the particle mean free path. When the characteristic length L is one order larger than the mean free path A, the single-fluid model＇s results are found to be in good agreement with the multi-fluid model＇s simulations, and the modeling of single-fluid remains valid. If the value of L/A is lower than 10, the interpenetration between fluid species is significant, and the single-fluid simulations show some unphysical results; while the multi-fluid model can describe well the interpenetration and mix phenomena, and give more reasonable results.
