• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제35권9호
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• pp.891-896
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 사각 마이크로 채널의 열전달 특성을 연구하기 위한 실험을 수행하였다. 실험에 사용된 시료의 채널 수력직경은 $700{\mu}m$이며, 채널의 개수는 20개이다. 작동유체는 물이며, 작동유체의 입구 온도는 $20^{\circ}C$ 이다. 실험 변수는 Reynolds 수 400 ~ 800 및 열 유속 35 ~ 85 kW/$m^2$ 이다. 결과로, Reynolds 수가 큰 경우일수록 대류 열전달 계수가 증가하는 것으로 나타났으며, 열적으로 완전히 발달 된 영역에 대하여 대류 열전달 계수는 약 4.6 ~ 6.4 kW/$m^2^{\circ}C$로 나타났다. 또한, 사각 마이크로 채널에서의 열적 입구길이는 Reynolds 수가 커지는 경우일수록 길어지는 것을 알 수 있었으나, 열 유속의 변화는 입구길이에 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구의 결과로 완전히 발달된 유동영역에 대하여 사각 마이크로 채널의 열적 특성을 나타내기 위한 Nusselt 수 상관식을 제안하였다.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.471-479
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• 2010

다른 세장비에 따른 단일 사각 마이크로 채널 내의 이상유동연구를 수행하였다. 본 연구에서는 대략 넓이가 $500\;{\mu}m$ 이며 수력직경이 각각 490, 322, $143\;{\mu}m$ 인 사각 마이크로채널 내에서의 물-질소 유동에 대한 실험이 수행되었다. 또한, 고속카메라와 장거리 현미경을 통해 이상유동양식을 가시화하였다. 본 연구는 이상유동 중 기포류에 중점을 두었으며 가시화 결과를 통해 기포의 속도, 기포의 길이, 관 내 기포의 개수, 기공률을 산출하였고 단위 셀 모델을 기반으로 늘어진 단일 기포의 압력강하를 해석하였다. 실험을 통해 기포의 속도, 기공률, 단일 기포의 압력강하가 각각 겉보기 속도와 체적건도, 세장비와 연관이 있음을 확인하였으며, 사각 마이크로 채널 내 늘어진 단일 기포의 압력강하에 대한 상관식을 개발하였다.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.1999-2004
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• 2004

Experiments were conducted to investigate the flow characteristics of water through rectangular PDMS microchannels with a hydraulic diameter ranging from 66.67 to 200 ${\mu}m$. In the experiments, the flow rate and pressure drop across the microchannels were measured at steady states. The experimental results were compared with the predictions from the conventional laminar flow theory. A significant difference between the experimental data and the theoretical predictions was found. Experimental results indicate that the pressure gradient and flow friction in microchannels are higher than those from the conventional laminar flow theory. This may be attributed to the fact that there exists effect of surface roughness of the microchannels. In this study, a surface roughness model is implemented to interpret the experimental data. A good agreement between the experimental data and the numerical predictions with a surface roughness model were found.

• International Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.51-60
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• 2005

This paper reviews the studies on the pressure drop and the heat transfer in microchannels. Although a lot of studies about the single-phase flow have been done until now, conflicting results are occasionally reported about flow transition from laminar flow to turbulent flow, friction factor, and Nusselt number. Some studies reported the early flow transition due to relatively greater wall effect like surface roughness, but the other studies showed that the flow transition occurred at the Reynolds number of about 2300 and the early flow transition might be due to less accurate measurement of the channel geometry. Also, there have been arguments whether the conventional relation based upon continuum theory can be applied to the fluid flow and the heat transfer in microchannels without modification or not. The studies about the two-phase flow in microchannels have been mostly about investigating the flow pattern and the pressure drop in rectangular channels using two-component, two-phase flow like air/water mixture. Some studies proposed correlations to predict two-phase flow pressure drop in microchannels. They were mostly based on Lockhart-Martinelli model with modification on C-coefficient, which was dependent on channel geometry, Reynolds number, surface tension, and so on. Others investigated the characteristics of flow boiling heat transfer in microchannels with respect to test parameters such as mass flux, heat flux, system pressure, and so on. The existing studies have not been fully satisfactory in providing consistent results about the pressure drop and the heat transfer in microchannels. Therefore, more in-depth studies should be done for understanding the fundamentals of the transport phenomena in the microchannels and giving the basic guidelines to design the micro devices.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회B
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• pp.2803-2810
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• 2007

Three dimensional numerical studies were carried out to investigate the effect of aspect ratio on gas slip flow in rectangular microchannels. We focused on aspect ratio effect on slip velocity, pressure distribution and mass flow rate. As aspect ratio decreases the wall slip velocity also decreases. As a result nonlinearity of pressure distribution increases. The slip velocities on sides and top/bottom walls are different and this difference decreases with increasing aspect ratio. These two velocities are equal when aspect ratio is 1. The ratios of slip mass flow rate over noslip mass flow rate increases with increasing aspect ratios.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2008년도 학술대회
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• pp.204-207
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• 2008

Stochastic molecular dynamics simulation is a variation of standard molecular dynamics simulation that basically omits water molecules. The omission of water molecules, occupying a majority of space, enables flow simulation at microscale. This study reports our stochastic molecular dynamics simulation of particles diffusing in rectangular microchannels. We interestingly found that diffusion patterns in channels with a very small aspect ratio differ by dimensions. We will also discuss the future direction of our research toward a more realistic simulation of micromixing.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2008년 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.204-207
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• 2008

Stochastic molecular dynamics simulation is a variation of standard molecular dynamics simulation that basically omits water molecules. The omission of water molecules, occupying a majority of space, enables flow simulation at microscale. This study reports our stochastic molecular dynamics simulation of particles diffusing in rectangular microchannels. We interestingly found that diffusion patterns in channels with a very small aspect ratio differ by dimensions. We will also discuss the future direction of our research toward a more realistic simulation of micromixing.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.710-716
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• 2006

Micro-PIV system with a high speed CCD camera is used to measure the flow field near the advancing meniscus of a water slug in microchannels. Image shifting technique combined with meniscus detecting technique is proposed to measure the relative velocity of the liquid near the meniscus in a moving reference frame. The proposed method is applied to an advancing front of a slug in microchannels with rectangular cross section. In the case of hydrophilic channel, strong flow from the center to the side wall along the meniscus occurs, while in the case of the hydrophobic channel, the fluid flows in the opposite direction. Further, the velocity near the side wall is higher than the center region velocity, exhibiting the characteristics of a strong shear-driven flow. This phenomenon is explained to be due to the existence of small gaps between the slug and the channel wall at each capillary corner so that the gas flows through the gaps inducing high shear on the slug surface. Simulation of the shape of a static droplet inside a cubic cell obtained by using the Surface Evolver program is supportive of the existence of the gap at the rectangular capillary corners. The flow fields in the circular capillary, in which no such gap exists, are also measured. The results show that a similar flow pattern to that of the hydrophilic rectangular capillary (i.e., center-to-wall flow) is always exhibited regardless of the wettability of the channel wall, which is also indicative of the validity of the above-mentioned assertion.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.9-18
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• 2010

2 상 유동 압력강하에 대한 모델은 균질유동모델과 분리유동모델 두 가지가 있다. 많은 선행 연구자들은 마이크로채널에서의 2 상 유동 압력강하에 대한 상관식을 제시하였고, 대부분은 분리유동모델에 해당하는 Lockhart- $Martinelli^{(27)}$의 수정된 상관식에 기초하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 사각 마이크로채널에서의 압력강하에 대한 연구를 위해서 액상의 물과 기상의 질소를 사용하여 사각 마이크로채널에서의 실험을 수행하였다. 2 상 마찰 압력강하는 2 상 유동양식에 큰 연관성을 가지고 있는 결과를 확인할 수 있었다. 6 가지의 2 상 점성 모델을 포함한 균질유동 모델 ($Owen^{(21)}$'s, $MacAdams^{(22)}$'s, Cicchitti et ${al.}^{(23)}$'s, ${al.,}^{(24)}$ Beattie and ${Whalley,}^{(25)}$ Lin et ${al.}^{(26)}$)과 6 가지의 분리유동 모델 (Lockhart and $Martinelli,^{(27)}$ ${Chisholm,}^{(31)}$ Zhang et ${al.,}^{(15)}$ Lee and ${Lee,}^{(5)}$ Moriyama and ${Inue,}^{(4)}$ Qu and $Mudawar^{(8)}$)에 대한 평가를 실험결과와 비교를 통해 수행하였다. 가장 우수한 2 상 점성 모델은 Beattie and Whalley 의 모델이었고, 가장 우수한 분리유동 모델은 Qu and Mudawar 의 상관식이였다. 균질유동모델과 분리유동모델 모두에 대해서 2 상 유동양식에 종속성을 나타내었다. 그러므로, 본 연구에서는 2 상 유동 양식에 기초한 새로운 상관식을 균질유동모델과 분리유동모델에 대해 각각을 제시하였다.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제33권12호
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• pp.939-946
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• 2009

Wettability is a critical parameter in micro-scale two-phase system. Several previous results indicate that wettability has influential affect on two-phase flow pattern in a microchannel. However, previous studies conducted using circular microtube, which was made by conventional fabrication techniques. Although most applications for micro thermal hydraulic system has used a rectangular microchannel, data for the rectangular microchannel is totally lack. In this study, a hydrophilic rectangular microchannel was fabricated using a photosensitive glass. And a hydrophobic rectangular microchannel was prepared using silanization of glass surfaces with OTS (octa-dethyl-trichloro-siliane). Experiments of two-phase flow in the hydrophilic and the hydrophobic rectangular microchannels were conducted using water and nitrogen gas. Visualization of twophase flow pattern was carried out using a high-speed camera and a long distance microscope. Visualization results show that the wettability was important for two-phase flow pattern in rectangular microchannel. In addition, two-phase frictional pressure drop was highly related with flow patterns. Finally, Two-phase frictional pressure drop was analyzed with flow patterns.