Schweikert, Kai (2022)
Microlayer and Contact Line Evaporation during the Dewetting of a Volatile Liquid on a Superheated Solid.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00019859
Ph.D. Thesis, Primary publication, Publisher's Version
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Item Type: | Ph.D. Thesis | ||||
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Type of entry: | Primary publication | ||||
Title: | Microlayer and Contact Line Evaporation during the Dewetting of a Volatile Liquid on a Superheated Solid | ||||
Language: | English | ||||
Referees: | Stephan, Prof. Dr. Peter ; Di Marco, Prof. Dr. Paolo | ||||
Date: | 2022 | ||||
Place of Publication: | Darmstadt | ||||
Collation: | xiv, 128 Seiten | ||||
Date of oral examination: | 26 January 2022 | ||||
DOI: | 10.26083/tuprints-00019859 | ||||
Abstract: | Evaporating thin liquid films, so called microlayers, are of particular importance to two phase heat transfer processes, such as pool boiling or boiling in microchannels. The microlayer can form between wall and growing or moving vapor bubble, elevating heat flux due to its evaporation, and contributing to overall bubble growth. However, a microlayer is not always observed. In this case, heat flux is found to concentrate near the three-phase contact line - the location where solid, liquid, and vapor meet. Many aspects of microlayer formation and evaporation are not sufficiently understood, which limits the modeling and design of boiling applications. For instance, the physical parameters contributing to the formation process and the local heat flux largely remain unclear. Previous studies have indicated a complex interaction between the microscopic processes at the contact line, the wall material, the fluid properties, the wall superheat, and the dewetting velocity. Addressing the individual influence of these parameters directly within a boiling application, however, is rather difficult, as they are coupled in a boiling scenario. Therefore, generic experiments, in which these parameters are decoupled, are carried out in this thesis to investigate the formation and evaporation process of the microlayer on a fundamental level. The dip-coating geometry, where a sample is vertically withdrawn from a stationary pool of liquid, is chosen as a basis for the experimental facility. This widely used method is adapted for the use of infrared thermography, with which the temperature at the solid/liquid interface is determined during the dewetting procedure. The experimental set-up is presented and an infrared calibration method, which accounts for the movement of the sample, is developed. The local heat flux is obtained from inverse numerical simulation. The experimental results indicate that microlayer formation occurs at a critical dewetting velocity, which increases with the wall superheat. Both quantities are thereby linked by the evaporation near the contact line. Correlations for this regime boundary are presented and compared with analytical descriptions from literature to illuminate the mechanism responsible for the regime transition. Heat flux near the contact line and across the microlayer is analyzed in detail. The total heat flux dramatically increases, when a microlayer is formed. The local heat flux across the microlayer is shown to be linked to the thermal boundary layer in the solid substrate. An analytical description for the local heat flux is presented, from which an expression for the length of the microlayer is deduced. Good agreement to the experimental measurements is found in both cases. |
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Status: | Publisher's Version | ||||
URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-198599 | ||||
Classification DDC: | 600 Technology, medicine, applied sciences > 620 Engineering and machine engineering | ||||
Divisions: | 16 Department of Mechanical Engineering > Institute for Technical Thermodynamics (TTD) | ||||
TU-Projects: | DFG|SFB1194|TP A01 Stephan | ||||
Date Deposited: | 12 May 2022 12:10 | ||||
Last Modified: | 05 Aug 2022 13:14 | ||||
URI: | https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/19859 | ||||
PPN: | 495522074 | ||||
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