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Experimental Investigation of Artificial Cavities Effect of Single-Phase Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Single Microchannel

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Technology-Iraq, Alsina’a street, 10066 Baghdad, Iraq.

Abstract

In this paper, an experimental study has been conducted to investigate the influence of artificial cavities (artificial nucleation sites, ANS) in a single microchannel on the characteristics of flow and heat transfer at a single-phase flow. The experiments were performed with deionized water as a working fluid at 30OC inlet temperature with a range (108.6-2372) of Reynolds numbers. Three models of the straight microchannel (model-1, model-2, and model-3) were manufactured of brass having a rectangular shape with a hydraulic diameter of (0.42 mm). Model-1 has a smooth surface, while model-2 has artificial cavities with a number of 40 ANS located on the base of the microchannel; along a line adjacent to one of the sidewalls. Also, the artificial cavities of model-3 exist at the base of the microchannel; along a line that is nearest to each sidewall for the microchannel. The number of ANS at each sidewall is 40 (i.e. the overall number of artificial nucleations is 80). The results manifested the enhancement of heat transfer by the presence of ANS for model-2 and model-3 as compared to model-1 by 15.53% and 16.67%, respectively. Also, the results proved that the fanning friction factor correlation for laminar and turbulent flow can predict very well the results (MAE=6.6-7.2%) and (MAE=4.1-7.7%), respectively. Also, the Nusselt number increases with increasing Reynolds number. However, the conventional correlation that predicted the experimental results is lower than the correlations (MAE=30.1%, 13.2% and 12.6%) for Model-1, -2 and -3, respectively.

Highlights

  • The traditional (conventional) correlation is appropriate for predicting the friction factor for smooth surface of microchannel. as well as microchannel which uses artificial nucleation sites.
  • Developing heat transfer flow region is a dominated heat transfer in microchannel within experimental work operation conditions.
  • Enhancement of the heat transfer performance for the microchannel by using artificial nucleation sites as compared to the smooth surface of microchannel.

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Engineering and Technology Journal
Volume 40, Issue 1
Mechanical Engineering
, 33 articles
January 2022
Page 109-119
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