Theoretical simulation of explosive boiling

✍ Scribed by Hailong Li; Ezra Elias; Arun S. Mujumdar

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 133 KB
• Volume: 32
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0735-1933
• DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2004.10.012

✦ Synopsis

The purpose of this paper is to describe the complex thermal and mass transfer processes taking place in a liquid as the limit of superheat is approached and to develop a set of criteria for estimating the limit of superheat in practical cases relevant to some MEMS applications, where an extremely small liquid volume may be heated nonuniformly. A mechanistic model is presented for estimating the spatial location and time for reaching the limit of superheat in a non-uniformly heated volume of liquid.