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http://dx.doi.org/10.7837/kosomes.2012.18.5.461

Pressure Drop due to Friction in Small Rectangular Channel  

Lim, Tae-Woo (Division of Marine Engineering, Korea Maritime University)
Choi, Jae-Hyuk (Division of Marine System Engineering, Korea Maritime University)
Kim, Jun-Hyo (Division of Marine System Engineering, Mokpo National Maritime University)
Choi, Yong-Suk (Graduate School, Division of Marine Engineering, Korea Maritime University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety / v.18, no.5, 2012 , pp. 461-467 More about this Journal
Abstract
An experimental study was carried out to measure frictional pressure drop in flow boiling to deionized water in a microchannel having a hydraulic diameter of $500{\mu}m$. Tests were performed in the ranges of heat fluxes from 100 to $400kW/m^2$, vapor qualities from 0 to 0.2 and mass fluxes of 200, 400 and $600kg/m^2s$. The frictional pressure drop during flow boiling is predicted by using two models; the homogeneous model that assumes equal phase velocity and the separate flow model that allows a slip velocity between two phases. From the experimental results, it is found that the two phase multiplier decreases with an increase in mass flux. Measured data of pressure drop are compared to a few available correlations proposed for macroscale and mini/microscale. The homogeneous model well predicted frictional pressure drop within MAE of 29.4 % for the test conditions considered in this work.
Keywords
Homogeneous model; Separate flow model; Frictional pressure drop; Two-phase multiplier; Vapor quality;
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