CFD Simulation of Boiling Flows Using the Volume-of-Fluid Method within OpenFOAM

Kunkelmann, Christian; Stephan, Peter

doi:10.1080/10407780903423908

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“…As discussed by Dhir [161],measurement difficulties, prediction inaccuracies, and lack of generality associated with the effort to correlate nucleate boiling mechanisms over the last half of the twentieth century, viz. nucleation site density, bubble departure diameter, and bubble departure frequency, has spurred recent investigation of direct simulation of vapor bubble growth during nucleate boiling from flat surfaces [162][163][164][165][166][167][168][169]. Reports of similar approaches in the presence of porous structures are limited.…”

Section: Boiling In the Wick Structurementioning

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Recent Advances in Vapor Chamber Transport Characterization for High-Heat-Flux Applications

Weibel

Garimella

2013

Advances in Heat Transfer

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Owing to their high reliability, simplicity of manufacture, passive operation, and effective heat transport, flat heat pipes and vapor chambers are used extensively in the thermal management of electronic devices. The need for concurrent size, weight, and performance improvements in high-performance electronics systems, without resort to active liquid-cooling strategies, demands passive heat spreading technologies that can dissipate extremely high heat fluxes from small hot spots. In response to these daunting application-driven trends, a number of recent investigations have focused on the design, characterization, and fabrication of ultra-thin vapor chambers for proximate heat spreading away from these hot spots. The predominant transport mechanisms and operational limits have been found to be different under these conditions relative to conventional low-power heat pipes. Noteworthy advances in the fundamental understanding of evaporation and boiling from porous microstructures fed by capillary action, and improvements in vapor chamber characterization, modeling, design, and fabrication techniques are reviewed. Characterization of evaporation and boiling from idealized and realistic wick structures, observation of vapor formation regimes as a function of operating conditions, assessment of fluid dryout limitations, design of novel multi-scale and nanostructured wicks for enhanced transport, and incorporation of these high heat flux transport phenomena into device-level models are discussed. These recent developments have successfully extended the maximum operating heat flux limits of vapor chambers.2

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Section: Boiling In the Wick Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

Recent Advances in Vapor Chamber Transport Characterization for High-Heat-Flux Applications

Weibel

Garimella

2013

Advances in Heat Transfer

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“…Boiling flow simulations were performed by [50] within the OPENFOAM software. The model was developed with the VOF technique and focused on the investigation of the nucleate boiling process.…”

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3D ALE Finite-Element Method for Two-Phase Flows With Phase Change

Anjos

Mangiavacchi

Borhani

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Heat Transfer Engineering

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“…Despite the recent significant advances in modeling, these state-of-the-art techniques are still validated using test problems for which simplistic analytical solutions are available [15,17,18,21,22], comparison to temporally and spatially averaged transport quantities that can be easily measured experimentally [16], or cross-comparison between the different numerical modeling approaches [17]. There is a clear need for high-fidelity benchmark experimental data that can be used as a common basis for validation of sophisticated flow boiling models.…”

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An experimental method for controlled generation and characterization of microchannel slug flow boiling

Kingston

Weibel

Garimella

2017

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

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CFD Simulation of Boiling Flows Using the Volume-of-Fluid Method within OpenFOAM

Cited by 236 publications

References 13 publications

Recent Advances in Vapor Chamber Transport Characterization for High-Heat-Flux Applications

Recent Advances in Vapor Chamber Transport Characterization for High-Heat-Flux Applications

3D ALE Finite-Element Method for Two-Phase Flows With Phase Change

An experimental method for controlled generation and characterization of microchannel slug flow boiling

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