Heat And Mass Transfer In Capillary-pumped Liquid Films In Square Cross-section Minichannels

摘要

This study addresses heat and mass transfer during the vaporization of a liquid in a heated square cross-section mini-channel. A theoretical model is developed in steady state using the radius of curvature as a variable. One-dimensional simulations have been performed. An analysis of this model reveals that heat and mass transfer is governed by two main groups of non-dimensional numbers (i.e., Reynolds × Boiling and Weber × Boiling~2 numbers). Maps of heat transfer performance are thus proposed according to these non-dimensional numbers. A reduced model is finally derived, allowing the main parameters to be expressed (such as the extended meniscus length) analytically.