WU Chunxu, LI Junming. Numerical simulation of gas-liquid interface evolution for flow and condensation in square microchannel[J]. CIESC Journal, 2018, (7): 2851-2859.
WU Chunxu, LI Junming. Numerical simulation of gas-liquid interface evolution for flow and condensation in square microchannel[J]. CIESC Journal, 2018, (7): 2851-2859.DOI: 10.11949/j.issn.0438-1157.20171309.
the gas-liquid interface evolution for R32 flow and condensation in a square microchannel with 50 μm hydraulic diameter is studied. Annular
injection flow
bubbly flow and shrinking bubbly flow are simulated successively. Because of the gas-liquid interface curvature variation along the circumferential direction of channel
the existing surface tension generated transverse pressure gradient in the condensate film
which forces the condensate towards the corners and thins the condensate film at the middle of the wall of channel. A mechanism for the occurrence of injection flow dominated by the surface tension force and interface viscous force is proposed based on the minimum potential energy theory. The interface fluctuations on the annular flow upstream are induced by injection flow at low mass flux
and grow up gradually under interface viscous force which is different from the mechanism of “flow pattern transition at high mass flux being induced by interface fluctuations which grow up while flowing downstream”.