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Effects of surface tension and contact angle on sensible heating and boiling incipience in dielectric falling films

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OSTI ID:7002837
Predicting the point of incipient boiling is of paramount importance for reliable operation of liquid-cooled microelectronic heat sources during power transients. This study focuses on heat transfer from a simulated multichip module to a falling film. Experiments have been performed to develop an understanding of the influence of surface tension and wetting characteristics in sensible heat transfer and boiling incipience in free-falling dielectric (FC-72) liquid films. A correlation for the space-average heat transfer coefficient is presented which shows clear departure of FC-72 data from correlations obtained for fluids with higher surface tension. The boiling results reveal that the vanishingly small contact angle of FC-72 precluded the application of correlations currently employed to predict incipience. Also, the temperature overshoot commonly encountered upon boiling incipience in wetting fluids was nonexistent in all the experimental runs. 14 refs., 12 figs.
Research Organization:
Purdue Univ., Lafayette, IN (USA). Boiling and Two-Phase Flow Lab.
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-85ER13398
OSTI ID:
7002837
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/13398-9; CONF-880744-1; ON: DE88007057
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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