Experimental study on two-phase boiling in wavy copper microchannels fabricated with ultrafast laser micromachining

摘要： In this study, the sinusoidal wavy (SW) copper microchannels with triangular cross section were fabricated with the ultrafast laser micromachining approach. The flow boiling of de-ionized water in SW microchannel were experimentally studied under mass fluxes of 43.43-217.15 kg/(m2s) and heat fluxes of 0-590 kW/m2. The flow patterns in the SW microchannels were visually observed and the boiling heat transfer characteristics were analyzed based on the obtained data. It shows the SW microchannel has a maximum enhancement of 127.7% in local heat transfer coefficient with an acceptable increase of pressure loss compared to the straight one in present work. In SW microchannel, a low degree of superheat can trigger the onset of nucleate boiling. A slow decreasing tendency of local heat transfer coefficient under a high effective heat flux or a high vapor quality was observed. The heat transfer mechanism of flow boiling in SW microchannel was analyzed based on the experimental visualization. Nucleate boiling and thin film evaporation are the dominant modes under different thermal boundary conditions. The flow boiling instability phenomenon in microchannels can be diminished using the wavy structures.