An experimental investigation on R410A evaporation characteristics inside newly developed 3-D enhanced tubes is performed
and the results are compared with a smooth tube with inner diameter of 11.07 mm. The test section is a 2 m long tube-in-tube heat exchanger and the mass flux ranges from 70 to 150 kg/(m2·s)
vapor quality ranges from 0.1 to 0.9 when saturation temperature is maintained at 10℃.The heat transfer characteristics in low vapor quality region and high vapor quality region are discussed within the tested mass flux range. Four evaporation correlations are introduced to validate the test results of the smooth tube
and the results show that the predicted values have a good consistence with the experimental results.