The effect of bubble deceleration on the liquid film thickness in microtubes
- Authors
- Youn, Young Jik; Muramatsu, Kenshiro; Han, Youngbae; Shikazono, Naoki
- Issue Date
- Apr-2016
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
- Keywords
- Liquid film thickness; Two-phase flow; Microtube; Deceleration
- Citation
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND FLUID FLOW, v.58, pp.84 - 92
- Journal Title
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND FLUID FLOW
- Volume
- 58
- Start Page
- 84
- End Page
- 92
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hongik/handle/2020.sw.hongik/8006
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2016.01.002
- ISSN
- 0142-727X
- Abstract
- Liquid film thickness is an important parameter for predicting boiling and condensation heat transfer coefficients in microtube slug flows. In the present study, the effect of bubble deceleration on the liquid film thickness is experimentally investigated under adiabatic condition. The laser focus displacement meter is used to measure the liquid film thickness. Circular tubes with three different inner diameters, D = 0.7, 1.0 and 1.3 mm, are used. Measurement is carried out using a microtube with one open end and the other connected to an actuator motor. Water, ethanol and FC-40 are used as working fluids. It is found that deceleration makes the liquid film thicker than that in the steady flow, and it deviates from the steady case as the deceleration rate is increased. Liquid film thickness remains nearly unchanged just after the onset of deceleration, and then gradually decreases and eventually converges to the steady thickness as the velocity is further decreased. Finally, an empirical correlation is proposed to predict initial liquid film thickness in decelerated flows. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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