Nucleate boiling simulation using interface tracking method

Li, Mengnan; Moortgat, Joachim; Bolotnov, Igor A.

doi:10.1016/j.nucengdes.2020.110813

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“…Furthermore, the microlayer can be resolved with this kind of method . The “independent region” and “prohibitive region” during wall boiling were revealed by Li et al They concluded the bubble formation was only suppressed in the “prohibitive region.” Nevertheless, further research extending to multiple bubble cycles is expected as this study only focused on the first bubble cycle. Ren and Zhou found that the wall temperature of the vertical tube is more stable than the horizontal tube and the wall temperature increases with the increase of tube length from 100 to 400 mm due to the larger slugs along the wall.…”

Section: Phase Change For Thermal Management (Tm)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Recent Advances in CFD Simulations of Multiphase Flow Processes with Phase Change

Zhu

Zhang

et al. 2023

Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.

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Phase change is a phenomenon that has been extensively utilized in chemical engineering, energy, electronics, vehicle, and space exploration. From both the science and engineering perspectives, gaining a profound understanding of the intricacies of multiphase flow processes accompanied by heat and mass transfer due to phase change is of fundamental importance. Indeed, the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has been increasingly applied as an effective tool to give an in-depth and efficient analysis of the phase change processes, thereby enhancing our understanding and capacity to control and optimize the phase change effects in these processes. This paper seeks to provide a comprehensive review of the utilization of CFD methodologies in the simulations of phase change flows across various applications, including temperature management, drying, separation and purification, and others. First, the CFD models at various scales that are developed to elucidate the phase change processes are summarized. Second, the noteworthy advances in the recent CFD simulation work on various phase change processes are presented, respectively. Finally, the challenges and potential prospects to facilitate the application of the phase change flow are discussed. The current review aims to offer insightful guidance for the CFD modeling of phase change processes in numerous engineering application scenarios.

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Section: Phase Change For Thermal Management (Tm)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Interface tracking with the VOF , and LS methods has been widely used for pool boiling simulation. In comparison with other CFD methods for pool boiling, the interface tracking method is capable of providing high-resolution results with relatively low computational costs.…”

Section: Phase Change For Thermal Management (Tm)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Recent Advances in CFD Simulations of Multiphase Flow Processes with Phase Change

Zhu

Zhang

et al. 2023

Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.

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“…Their model incorporates mass, momentum, and phase transfer in fluid, contact line evaporation and transient heat conduction in the heating wall. The most recent study on nucleate boiling simulation using the interface tracking method is reported by Li et al [50]. With this boiling model, they investigated interactions between bubbles forming at adjacent nucleation sites.…”

Section: Table 1 Heat Transfer Coefficientmentioning

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Nucleate pool boiling heat transfer: Review of models and bubble dynamics parameters

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Understanding nucleate pool boiling heat transfer and, in particular the accurate prediction of conditions that can lead to critical heat flux, is of the utmost importance in many industries. Due to the safety issues related to the nuclear power plants, and for the efficient operation of many heat transfer units including fossil fuel boilers, fusion reactors, electronic chips, etc., it is important to understand this kind of heat transfer. In this paper, a comprehensive review of analytical and numerical work on nucleate pool boiling heat transfer is presented. In order to understand this phenomenon, existing studies on boiling heat transfer coefficient and boiling heat flux are also discussed, as well as characteristics of boiling phenomena such as bubble departure diameter, bubble departure frequency, active nucleation site density, bubble waiting and growth period and their impact on pool boiling heat transfer.

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“…In nucleation boiling, the geometry of nucleation sites due to micro-structure entirely effect on bubble dynamics. Recently, some numerical simulations [3][4][5] and experiments [6][7][8][9][10][11] have been performed to investigate boiling mechanism of artificial nucleation site by lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. Most of simulations only focus on nucleation sites.…”

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Studying the effect of geometry of micro-cavity on pool boiling by LBM

Huang

Zhou²,

Huai³

et al. 2023

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.

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Pool boiling heat transfer from structured surface is simulated numerically with a 3D OTRT (optimal two relaxation time) Lattice Boltzmann method. This work shows in detail that multiple bubbles grow and coalesce over hydrophilic (θ = 50°) surfaces in 3D view, heat flux transfers from heater surface to fluid, and temperature of heater surface varies with time. Specifically, four types of geometry in microstructure surfaces are examined and compared. It is found that heat flux of S5 is the highest and its wall temperature is the lowest. When compared with S0, the heat flux of S5~S7 increased a lot due to the easier formation of vapor blanket, and cubic shaped cavity alleviates largely this deterioration. Next, the large quantity of heat from the three phase contact line in the vicinity of side wall accounts for bubble nucleation and energy from the evaporation of thin liquid between bubbles and superheated wall helps bubbles to grow further. Besides, it is found that S5 increases nucleate site density, reduces boiling incipience superheat, and enhances remarkably heat transfer performance.

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Nucleate boiling simulation using interface tracking method

Cited by 8 publications

References 33 publications

Recent Advances in CFD Simulations of Multiphase Flow Processes with Phase Change

Recent Advances in CFD Simulations of Multiphase Flow Processes with Phase Change

Nucleate pool boiling heat transfer: Review of models and bubble dynamics parameters

Studying the effect of geometry of micro-cavity on pool boiling by LBM

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