A temperature-controlled pool boiling (TCPB) device has been developed to study the bubble behavior and heat transfer in pool boiling phenomenon both in normal gravity and in microgravity. A thin platinum wire of 60 microns in diameter and 30 mm in length is simultaneously used as heater and thermometer. The fluid is R113 at 0.1 MPa and subcooled by 26 deg C nominally for all cases. Three modes of heat transfer, namely single-phase natural convection, nucleate boiling, and two-mode transition boiling, are observed in the experiment both in microgravity aboard the 22nd Chinese recoverable satellite and in normal gravity on the ground before and after the space flight. Dynamic behaviors of vapor bubbles observed in these experiments are reported and analyzed in the present paper. In the regime of fully developed nucleate boiling, the interface oscillation due to coalescence of adjacent tiny bubbles is the primary reason of the departure of bubbles in microgravity. In the discrete bubble regime that there exist three critical bubble diameters in microgravity, dividing the whole range of the observed bubbles into four regimes. Firstly, tiny bubbles are continually forming and growing on the heating surface before departing slowly from the wire when their sizes exceed some value of the order of 10(exp-1) mm. The bigger bubbles (several mm) in diameter stay on the wire, oscillate along the wire, and coalesce with adjacent bubbles. The biggest bubble which was formed immediately after the onset of boiling, stays continuously on the wire and swallows continually up adjacent small bubbles until its size exceeds another critical value. The same behavior of tiny bubbles can also be observed in normal gravity, while the others are observed only in microgravity. Considering the Marangoni effect, a mechanistic model about bubble departure is presented to reveal the mechanism underlying this phenomenon. The predictions are qualitatively consistent with the experimental observations.


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    Titel :

    Bubble dynamics in nucleate pool boiling on thin wires in microgravity


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Blasendynamik beim Blasensieden an dünnen Drähten unter Schwerelosigkeit


    Beteiligte:
    Zhao, J.F. (Autor:in) / Liu, G. (Autor:in) / Wan, S.X. (Autor:in) / Yan, N. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2008


    Format / Umfang :

    9 Seiten, 9 Bilder, 1 Tabelle, 26 Quellen




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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