Development of a surface array of microscale heaters to measure wall heat transfer underneath single bubbles in nucleate pool boiling
- Univ. of Denver, CO (United States). Dept. of Engineering
- Univ. of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO (United States). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
A novel array of microscale heaters has been developed to measure the heat transfer coefficient at many points underneath individual bubbles during boiling as a function of space and time. This heater array enables the local heat transfer from a surface during the bubble growth and departure process to be measured with very high temporal and spatial resolution, and should allow better understanding of the boiling heat transfer mechanisms by pinpointing when and where in the bubble departure cycle large amounts of wall heat transfer occur. Such information can provide much needed data regarding the important heat transfer mechanisms during the bubble departure cycle, and can serve as benchmarks to validate many of the analytical and numerical models used to simulate boiling. The current array has 148 heaters within a 3 mm diameter circle. Feedback loops similar to those used in hot-wire anemometry are used to keep each heater at a constant temperature, and the power required to do this is directly related to the heat transfer coefficient. A description of the heater performance and construction, the feedback loops, the computer control circuit, and the calibration rig are described.
- OSTI ID:
- 435783
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-951135-; ISBN 0-7918-1755-5; TRN: IM9710%%441
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 1995 International mechanical engineering congress and exhibition, San Francisco, CA (United States), 12-17 Nov 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the ASME Heat Transfer and Fluids Engineering Divisions: Fluid mechanics and heat transfer in sprays; Heat, mass and momentum transfer in environmental flows; Measurement techniques in multiphase flow; Multiphase transport in porous media. HTD-Volume 321; FED-Volume 233; Hoyt, J.W. [ed.] [San Diego State Univ., CA (United States)]; O`Hern, T.J. [ed.] [Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)]; Presser, C. [ed.] [National Inst. of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD (United States)] [and others]; PB: 761 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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