Investigation of Bubble Frequency for Slug Flow Regime in a Uniformly Heated Horizontal Microchannel
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Abstract
Slug flow is an essential flow pattern observed in microchannels where its transition boundaries in microchannels are characterized by two complex hydrodynamic phenomena, the bubble confinement and the bubble coalescence. Slug flow may be classified in terms of bubble size into two major zones: isolated bubble zone and coalescence bubble zone. In this paper, a semi-analytical model is developed for predicting the main characteristics of isolated bubble zone for flow boiling in a horizontal microchannel. The influences of surface tension, shear, and inertial forces have been taken into account. The model is developed on the basis of drift flux model, and a fully developed slug unit is chosen as a control volume for deriving the equations of motion. The effects of main operating conditions, mass and heat fluxes, on bubble length and bubble frequency have been investigated. The boundaries of slug flow regime have been identified based on the most proper diabatic flow pattern maps available in the literature for the chosen database. The model has been validated using the database available in the literature for flow boiling of R134a and R245fa in 0.509 mm and 3.0 mm inner diameter horizontal mini-tubes, respectively, and over wide range of mass fluxes (300≤G≤1000 kg/m2 s). This study has shown that the mass flux has a significant effect on the slug length and the bubble frequency. The model gave a good agreement with the experimental data of bubble length and bubble frequency with a mean absolute error (MAE) of 18.0% and 27.34%, respectively.
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