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Influence of a Single Bubble on Heat Transfer Between Liquid and the Hot Wall Under Complex Shear Action

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The influence of the bubble on the heat transfer between liquid and walls extensively exists in industrial fields such as pressurized water, large capacity electronic equipment cooling nuclear reactor and heat exchanger under different gravity environment. Therefore, it is very significance to explore and understand the contribution of the bubble to these heat transfer phenomena. In this paper, the fluid volume (VOF) method is used to study the influence of the bubble on the heat transfer between liquid and a hot wall under complex shears. The influence of the bubble on the heat transfer (including temperature field and heat transfer coefficient) on the hot wall under different gravity levels and shear rates is analyzed in detail. To obtain some mechanism explanations, the bubble shape and the flow field around it are presented. The results show that the bubble shape has a direct dependence on the magnitude of shear rate and gravity level, and it directly affects the flow and temperature fields, and the heat transfer on the wall. When the shear rate is a constant, the increase of gravity level will make the bubble shape tend to be symmetric. When the gravity level is constant, the bubble is stretched along the shear direction. When both shear are and gravity level are maximum at the same time, the bubble shape is the most complex, similar to the tadpole shape. Under the pure shear, the heat transfer mode changes from heat conduction to heat convection with the increase of shear rate. Under the simultaneous action of gravity and shear, the heat transfer is enhanced in the downstream region of the bubble; but the heat transfer decrease at the bubble position and in the downstream region, and the decrease degree of the heat transfer is related to the distance between the bubble and the wall.

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We gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the NSFC Fund (No. 51376026) and Jiangsu Province “Qinglan” Project.

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Zhang, W., Pang, M. Influence of a Single Bubble on Heat Transfer Between Liquid and the Hot Wall Under Complex Shear Action. Microgravity Sci. Technol. 33, 61 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12217-021-09905-4

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