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A critical review on measures to suppress flow boiling instabilities in microchannels

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Due to the development of the electronic components, concentrator photovoltaic, fuel cell, etc., the cooling requirement of the devices increases rapidly. Due to the higher heat transfer and compact design of the microchannel technology, it has been widely considered and investigated to solve the increasing heat flux. Boiling heat transfer is an effective way to dissipate a mass of heat using the latent heat of phase change. Hence, comparing with the single phase liquid flow, flow boiling in microchannel utilizes both advantages of micro scale effect and phase change effect, and can realize a much higher heat flux. Therefore, it becomes a critical way for super high heat dissipation. However, the procedure of the phase change and two phase flow may lead to instability, which can seriously inhibit the heat transfer performance of coolant in microchannel. To tackle with the flow boiling instability, a number of methods were proposed and reported. Therefore, in this paper, to effectively improve the flow boiling in microchannel heat exchanger, the cutting-edge control technologies in this field were reviewed, categorized and summarized, and the future trend of the research was presented.

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Abbreviations

CHF:

Critical heat flux

CNT:

Carbon nanotubes

CPV:

Concentrator photovoltaic

DWO:

Density wave oscillations

HCPV:

High concentrator photovoltaics

HTC:

Heat transfer coefficient

MFB:

Minimum film boiling

OFO:

Onset of flow oscillation

ONB:

Onset of nucleate boiling

OSV:

Onset of significant void

PCI:

Parallel-channel Instability

PDO:

Pressure drop oscillation

ThO:

Thermal oscillation

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The study was supported by Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (No.: ZR2020ME170, ZR2016EEQ29), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No.: 18CX02077A), Research Foundation for Talents of China University of Petroleum (East China) (No.: YJ201501018), and National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51606044).

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Mao, N., Zhuang, J., He, T. et al. A critical review on measures to suppress flow boiling instabilities in microchannels. Heat Mass Transfer 57, 889–910 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00231-020-03009-2

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