Heat Transfer Coefficient Determination during FC-72 Flow in a Minichannel Heat Sink Using the Trefftz Functions and ADINA Software

Magdalena Piasecka, Beata Maciejewska and Paweł Łabędzki
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Magdalena Piasecka: Faculty of Mechatronics and Mechanical Engineering, Kielce University of Technology, 25-314 Kielce, Poland
Beata Maciejewska: Faculty of Management and Computer Modelling, Kielce University of Technology, 25-314 Kielce, Poland
Paweł Łabędzki: Faculty of Management and Computer Modelling, Kielce University of Technology, 25-314 Kielce, Poland

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 24, 1-25

Abstract: This work focuses on subcooled boiling heat transfer during flow in a minichannel heat sink with three or five minichannels of 1 mm depth. The heated element for FC-72 flowing along the minichannels was a thin foil of which temperature on the outer surface was measured due to the infrared thermography. The test section was oriented vertically or horizontally. A steady state heat transfer process and a laminar, incompressible flow of the fluid in a central minichannel were assumed. The heat transfer problem was described by the energy equations with an appropriate system of boundary conditions. Several mathematical methods were applied to solve the heat transfer problem with the Robin condition to determine the local heat transfer coefficients at the fluid/heated foil interface. Besides the 1D approach as a simple analytical method, a more sophisticated 2D approach was proposed with solutions by the Trefftz functions and ADINA software. Finite element method (FEM) calculations were conducted to find the temperature field in the flowing fluid and in the heated wall. The results were illustrated by graphs of local heated foil temperature and transfer coefficients as a function of the distance from the minichannel inlet. Temperature distributions in the heater and the fluid obtained from the FEM computations carried out by ADINA software were also shown. Similar values of the heat transfer coefficient were obtained in both the FEM calculations and the 1D approach. Example boiling curves indicating nucleation hysteresis are shown and discussed.

Keywords: minichannel; flow boiling; heat transfer coefficient; Trefftz functions; ADINA software (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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