Crisis phenomena in falling liquid films at periodic heat loads

Experimental results on development of crisis phenomena in a falling film of cryogenic liquid at alternating pulse heat release are presented. Experimental data on local temperature evolution along a heat releasing surface are obtained. It is shown that amplitude of heater temperature pulsations depends significantly on the heat flux density and coordinates along the liquid film flow. New experimental data on the critical heat fluxes corresponding to formation of stable dry spots and drying crisis are presented depending on duration of heat release pulses. It is shown that parameters of the forming metastable regular structures and critical drying parameters of the heat-releasing surface are determined by dynamics of the movable boundaries of wetting during self-organization of a system.     

Dry spot growth criterion for isothermal liquid films on a horizontal substrate

A criterion was elaborated for the phenomenon of dry spot evolution in isothermal liquid films on a horizontal substrate. The formulas are presented for gravity force and surface tension acting upon an element of the rim around the dry spot. The forces balance gives the evolution of initial dry spot: to expand or to contract.     

Heat transfer and crisis phenomena at boiling in Freon mixture films falling down the structured tube

Investigation results on hydrodynamics, heat transfer, and crisis phenomena in laminar-wave liquid films falling down the surfaces of different geometry are presented in this study. Freon mixture R21/R114 with initial concentration of low-boiling component of 4?C16.6 % was used as the working liquid. The film Reynolds number at the inlet to the experimental section varied from 60 to 700. The heat flux density was changed within 0?C5 W/cm². The images of wave surface of the falling liquid film and formation of dry spots were visualized and recorded by the high-speed video camera. Results of investigation of the wave structure of the film surface, measurements of heat transfer coefficients under the conditions of boiling, and critical heat fluxes in the film flow over the smooth and structured surfaces are presented.     

Mathematical simulation of liquid film flows with “dry” spots

Mathematical simulation of isothermal film flow for a viscous ponderous capillary liquid with dry spots on a solid substrate was performed. The algorithm was developed for calculation of the shape of a ridge (around the dry spot): this algorithm takes into account gravity forces, surface tension, friction, and inertia effects. Simulation results performed by original method were compared with experiment and previous method that takes into account only gravity and capillary forces. It was demonstrated that both methods produce similar results at low Reynolds numbers. However, at Reynolds higher than one these two methods give different results.     

Features of dry spot evolution at the film flow of cryogenic liquids at non-stationary heat release

Transitional processes with dry spot formation and drying crisis development were studied experimentally for the gradual and quasi-stationary laws of heat release on a thin-wall heater cooled by a falling film of cryogenic liquid. It is shown that for low densities of the heat flux, the laminar-wave liquid film decays with formation of a self-organizing system of metastable regular structures with boiling liquid jets and large dry zones between them. The numerical experiment modelling the process of repeated wetting of a superheated surface dried by impulse heat release was carried out. It was found for the first time that the local motion velocities of different zones of the 2D wetting front differ significantly. Reliability of results obtained by numerical methods was proved by direct comparison with experimental data. The work was financially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grant No. 5-08-18022-a) and Siberian Branch of RAS (Integration project of SB RAS together with ITP of UB RAS No. 2.5).     

Experimental investigation of 3-dimensional wavy liquid films under the coupled influence of thermo-capillary and electrostatic forces

Three-dimensional interfacial waves developing on the free surface of falling liquid films are known to intensify heat and mass transfer. In this context, the present paper studies the effect of electrostatic as well as of thermo-capillary forces on a falling film of a dielectric liquid. Therefore, measurements of the local film thickness using a confocal chromatic imaging method were performed under isothermal and heated conditions. The experimental results show that both forces destabilize the flow. It is found, that the application of an additional electric field under heating conditions enhances the generation of rivulets, thereby reducing the overall heat transfer coefficient.     

Numerical Simulation for Falling Film Flow Characteristics of Refrigerant on the Smooth and Structured Surfaces

Flow characteristics of a liquid film flowing over a smooth surface and structured surface with the Reynolds number range from 10 to 1121 are studied. The mixture of R21 and R114 refrigerants is used as the test liquid. The 3D transient simulations are taken to capture the liquid film’s dynamic characteristics and spatial distribution. Effects of the inlet dimension, inlet flow rates, surface tension, and surface structuring on the wettability, average velocity, and film thickness are studied systematically. The obtained results show that surface tension is essential for an accurate simulation, while inlet width has no effect on the liquid film parameters in the steady-state flow regime. For low flow rates, wetting area and film thickness both are small, and a suggested range of Reynolds number is chosen to simulate further heat transfer in order to balance the film thickness and dry spots generation. It is shown that a ripple surface structure hinders the liquid film movement, reflected in a lower velocity and a larger film thickness compared to the smooth surface. Lateral movement of a liquid film can also be observed at the structured surface.     

电场作用下的变焦非球面液滴微透镜

提出了一种制作变焦非球面液滴微透镜并在线检测其光学性能的新方法。在实时进行光学检测的条件下,选择光固化材料,利用电场作用操控液滴透镜的面形实现变焦,在检测到较好的透镜面形和聚焦状态时,采用紫外光固化技术使液滴透镜固化,可制作具有良好光学成像和聚焦性能的非球面微透镜。研制了紫外光固化非球面液滴微透镜制作平台及在线检测系统,实验观察并讨论了液滴透镜面形和聚焦光斑随电场作用的变化规律,成功实现了液滴透镜的变焦,并获得了良好的非球面面形和聚焦光斑,证明了用此方法制作高成像性能的非球面微透镜的可行性。     

Interconnection between dynamics of liquid boiling-up and heat transfer crisis for nonstationary heat release

This paper deals with investigation results on crisis phenomena for nonstationary heat release under the conditions of free convection and in falling liquid films. It is shown that the character of the crisis development and the critical heat flux for nonstationary heat release significantly depend on the characteristics determining the temperature head of liquid boiling-up. According to experimental data with an arbitrary temporal function of heating, the character of the dependence between the critical heat flux and the heat release increasing rate is significantly effected by ready nucleation sites. It is found that a change in the nonstationary critical heat flux in the range of high times between impulses for periodic heat release is connected with deactivation of ready nucleation sites on the heat-releasing surface. According to new experimental results, in the studied range of irrigation degree alteration (Re_in = 30–1660), parameters characterizing decay of the falling liquid film with stepped heat release (the distribution of the time of boiling-up expectation along the liquid film, the velocities of movable boundaries in the boiling-up and drying fronts, the intensity of liquid ejection from the heat-releasing surface) complexly depend on the Reynolds number, wave characteristics, and heat flux density. The text was submitted by the authors in English.     

Study on the temperature distribution of heated falling liquid films

A 2-D theoretical model was derived to present the temperature distribution of falling liquid films flowing over a vertical heated/cooled plate with constant temperature. And the temperature gradients for different flow rates and fluids were also discussed for different liquid films. The temperature distributions for liquid films of water, ethanol aqueous solutions and glycerol aqueous solutions were experimentally investigated with a sensitive thermal imaging system. It is found that the surface temperature of a film flowing over a vertical heated solid plate has a characteristic relationship with the film flow distance. A lower flow rate of the film or a higher temperature of the wall generally leads to a higher surface temperature in the film inception. For films of glycerol aqueous solutions under the same heating conditions, a lower glycerol concentration causes a higher surface temperature of the film, due to the decrease of the liquid viscosity, whereas the ethanol concentration is found to have little influence on the temperature distribution of the film surface. Comparisons of the experimental data and the theoretical model show that the model can adequately describe the surface temperature distribution of a heated falling liquid film.     

Automated printing technology as a new tool for liquid sample preparation for micro x‐ray fluorescence (MXRF)

The focus of this study was to explore automated printing technology (APT) as an alternative means to manual methods for nanoliter dried spot sample preparation of liquid samples for micro x‐ray fluorescence analysis (MXRF). APT was used successfully to dispense 20 and 50 nl volumes of multielemental standard solutions onto AP1 and Kapton film substrates. Automated droplet deposition was rapid and minimized operator skill and human error in the sample preparation process. Dried spots prepared by APT were generally circular in shape and similar in appearance to those prepared by manual dried spot deposition techniques. Furthermore, multiple dried spots could be accurately and reproducibly deposited in the same precise location on the film substrate surface, allowing for increased sample loadings within the MXRF analysis area for higher elemental sensitivity. The characteristics of the substrate did affect the quality of dried spot formation, with irregularly shaped spots forming on the thicker, more hydrophobic Kapton film, especially with higher droplet mass loadings. Adverse effects of irregular spot formation on quantitative analysis could be easily minimized by increasing the MXRF analysis area to encompass the entire dried spot residue. Nanoliter dried spot sample preparation is useful not only for MXRF analysis of liquid samples, but can also be applied to other analytical techniques such as IR, Raman or UV/fluorescence spectroscopy, the applications of which can benefit from rapid sample throughput and matrix reduction. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

介质阻挡放电中超四边斑图沿面放电的光谱研究

利用水电极介质阻挡放电装置,在氩气和空气的混合气体中,首次观察到了超四边斑图沿面放电,它是由中心点和暗点组成的。通过观察普通相机的斑图照片,可以发现中心点位于周围四个暗点的中心处。利用高速录像机对斑图进行短曝光拍摄,观察发现中心点对应体放电,暗点对应沿面放电,暗点由这些沿面放电形成。中心点和暗点的亮度有所不同,这说明中心点和暗点的等离子体状态可能不同。采用发射光谱法,研究了超四边斑图沿面放电的的中心点和暗点的等离子体参量随氩气含量的变化趋势。利用氮分子第二正带系(C3Π_u→B3Π_g)发射谱线,计算得出了中心点和暗点的分子振动温度; 然后通过氩原子696.57 nm (2P₂→1S₅)谱线的展宽,研究了中心点和暗点的电子密度。实验结果表明： 在相同氩气含量下,暗点的分子振动温度和电子密度均高于中心点的相应等离子体参量; 在其他实验条件不变的情况下,随着氩气含量从90%增大到99.9%,中心点和暗点的分子振动温度和电子密度均逐渐增大。结果表明中心点和暗点的等离子状态不同,说明二者的放电机制可能不同。     

Numerical simulation of two droplets impacting upon a dynamic liquid film

The impact of droplets on the liquid film is widely involved in industrial and agricultural fields. In recent years, plenty of works are limited to dry walls or stationary liquid films, and the research of multi-droplet impact dynamic films is not sufficient. Based on this, this paper employs a coupled level set and volume of fluid (CLSVOF) method to numerically simulate two-droplet impingement on a dynamic liquid film. In our work, the dynamic film thickness, horizontal central distance between the droplets, droplets' initial impact speed, and simultaneously the flow velocity of the moving film are analyzed. The evolution phenomenon and mechanism caused by the collision are analyzed in detail. We find that within a certain period of time, the droplet spacing does not affect the peripheral crown height; when the droplet spacing decreases or the initial impact velocity increases, the height of the peripheral crown increases at the beginning, and then, because the crown splashed under Rayleigh-Plateau instability, this results in the reduction of the crown height. At the same time, it is found that when the initial impact velocity increases, the angle between the upstream peripheral jet and the dynamic film becomes larger. The more obvious the horizontal movement characteristics, the more restrained the crown height; the spread length increases with the increase of the dynamic film speed, droplet spacing and the initial impact velocity. When the liquid film is thicker, more fluid enters the crown, due to the crown being unstable, the surface tension is not enough to overcome the weight of the rim at the end of the crown, resulting in droplets falling off.     

壁面涂层构型对垂直降膜流动特性的影响

利用特种表面涂层材料对实验管壁进行改性,使液膜形成沟流,实现液膜的内外表面溶液重新掺混;管外涂层的不同构型形成表面张力梯度表面,在吸收过程中可引导液滴向液膜方向运动,促进液膜扰动,从而达到强化传质的目的.通过液膜流动的可视化照片和液膜波动特性的实验结果,对不同状况下的流动形态进行初步分析.     

水平管降膜蒸发器传热优化研究

基于分布参数方法,对大型制冷系统中的水平管外降膜蒸发进行了传热优化数值模拟计算.在计算中,分析了饱和的液态制冷剂R134a在水平的铜管束外流动蒸发的换热特性.模型考虑了不同的管子类型和2流程不同管程布置对蒸发器换热特性的影响,结果表明,蒸发器采用Turbo-EHP管的性能高于其它管;不同管程布置对蒸发器性能的影响比较大,其中,下进上出管程布置的换热性能优于其它管程布置.同时,本文考虑了传热管外"干斑"对换热的影响.本文结论对于大型制冷系统中的降膜蒸发器传热优化设计具有指导性意义.     

Density-based kinetics for mesoscale simulations of detonation initiation in energetic materials

In this work we present one- and two-dimensional mesoscale simulations of detonation initiation in energetic materials. We solve the reactive Euler equations, with the energy equation augmented by a power deposition term. The reaction rate at the mesoscale is modelled using a density-based kinetics scheme, adapted from standard ‘Ignition and Growth’ models. The deposition term is based on previous results of simulations of void collapse at the microscale, modelled at the mesoscale as hot spots. For an isolated hot spot in a homogeneous medium, it is found that a critical size of the hot spots exists. If the hot spots exceed the critical size, initiation of detonation can be achieved. For sub-critical hot-spot sizes, we show that it takes a collection of hot spots to achieve detonation. We also carry out two-dimensional mesoscale simulations of random packs of HMX crystals in a binder, and show that the transition between no detonation and detonation depends on the number density of the hot spots, the initial radius of the hot spot, the post-shock pressure of an imposed shock, and the amplitude of the power deposition term.     

Investigation of contact line dynamics under a vapor bubble at boiling on the transparent heater

The paper presents the results of an experimental study of dynamics of vapor bubble growth and departure at pool boiling, obtained with the use of high-speed video recording and IR thermography. The study was carried out at saturated water boiling under the atmospheric pressure in the range of heat fluxes of 30?150 kW/m². To visualize the process and determine the growth rates of the outer bubble diameter, microlayer region and dry spot area, transpa-rent thin film heater with the thickness of 1 μm deposited on sapphire substrate was used in the experiments, and video recording was performed from the bottom side of the heating surface. To study integral heat transfer as well as local non-stationary thermal characteristics, high-speed infrared thermography with a frequency of up to 1000 FPS was used. High-speed video recording showed that after formation of vapor bubble and microlayer region, dry spot appears in a short time (up to 1 ms) under the vapor bubble. Various stages of contact line boundary propagation were ob-served. It was shown that at the initial stage before the development of small-scale perturbations, the dry spot propaga-tion rate is constant. It was also showed that the bubble departure stage begins after complete evaporation of liquid in the microlayer region.     

The effect of wave characteristics on rivulet formation in heated liquid films

Formation of rivulets on the surface of non-isothermal water film falling vertically over the heaters with different sizes and boundary conditions was studied experimentally. The distances between rivulets were measured depending on Reynolds number, heat flux density and film path (a distance between the lower edge of a film-former nozzle and the measurement point of film flow characteristics). The breakdown of solitary waves at liquid film heating was revealed. Four zones of film path influence on rivulet formation were distinguished.     

Stability of an encapsulated bubble shell

The stability of an encapsulated bubble filled with gas is studied where gas is allowed to diffuse out of the bubble. A mechanistic model that takes into account shell stiffness and surface tension is considered. A critical shell radius for loss of mechanical stability is derived based on a technique adapted for small radius, where surface tension effects become substantial. A new parameter is defined that determines the relative importance of surface tension forces and shell stiffness for shell stability. The developed technique allows to predict, for a given bubble population and gas saturation level of the surrounding liquid, a range of bubble sizes which may collapse in time. Surface tension effects are dominant in determining the critical radius but have a negligible effect on the minimal radius for collapse. The influence of the surface tension on the stability of the shell is illustrated for Optison, a typical ultrasound contrast agent.     

Stability of a vacuum arc discharge on surfaces of hot-rolled steels and its frequency characteristics

The stability of a vacuum arc discharge (VAD) with allowance made for the parameters of an external circuit and a deduced equation of the heterogeneous kinetics of elementary cathode spots (ECSs) in the group cathode spot with one-dimensional configuration is analyzed. It is theoretically and experimentally shown that a VAD with a rising voltage-current characteristic (VCC) is stable independently of the parameters of the external circuit. Stability conditions for a VAD with falling VCC are found.