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Pressure drops of flow boiling in a single microchannel having low aspect ratio were studied with effects of the inlet temperature,mass flux,heat flux and the inclined angle using methanol as working fluid. The present experimental data were compared with the predictions of the homogeneous flow model and separated flow model respectively. The comparison indicates that the homogeneous flow model cannot predict the twophase pressure drop well except using the twophase viscosity model of the Dukler correlation. With the existing correlations for parameter C in LockhartMartinelli correlation such as Chisholm,Lee and Lee,Mishima,Qu and Mudawar , separated flow model also failed to predict the twophase pressure drop in the microchannel of this study . The experimental data in this work show that the interaction between vapor phase and liquid phase is decreased with the increasing quality when the quality reach a certain value , accordingly there needs a correlation for C which decreased with the decreasing mass flux .A new correlation to predict the twophase flow pressure drop in microchannels was developed in the form of the LockhartMartinelli correlation .It includes the effect of the hydraulic diameter and the effect of mass flux on the twophase flow pressure drop in microchannels .The new correlation developed in this study predicted the experimental data within a mean absolute error of 16.9%.
Keywords
pressure drop characteristics
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homogeneous flow model
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separated flow model
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microchannel
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flow boiling
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Zhang Binglei,Xu Jinliang and Xiao Zejun.
Pressure Drop Characteristics of Flow Boiling in Microchannel With Low Aspect Ratio.
Strategic Study of CAE, 2007, 9(12): 86-93 DOI: