Investigation of Flow Boiling Phenomena in Small-Scale Complex Geometries

thesis or use of any of the information contained in it must acknowledge this thesis as the source of the quotation or information. ii This study concerns measurement and prediction of single-phase and flow boiling heat transfer coefficients and pressure drops in mini multi-channel geometries with and without interconnecting passages, including plate channel; parallel channel; in-line pin-fin and in-line off-set pin-fin surfaces. Experiments were performed with refrigerant R113 and deionised water at atmospheric pressure. Single-phase and flow boiling heat transfer coefficients and pressure drops were obtained over a range of effective heat fluxes and mass fluxes. For the plate and parallel channel surfaces, the results obtained have been compared with several published macro- and micro-channels correlations. For the in-line and in-line off-set pin fin surfaces, as the geometries have some similarities with tube bundles, the results obtained have been predicted using the standard correlations for tube bundles. The results also have been compared wit