An experimental study of flow boiling in a rectangular channel with offset strip fins

Abstract An experimental study on saturated flow boiling heat transfer of R113 was performed in a vertical rectangular channel with offset strip fins. Two-phase pressure gradients and boiling heat transfer coefficients in an electrically heated test section were measured for the quality range of 0–0.6, mass flux range of 17–43 kg/m2 s and heat flux of 500–3000 W/m2. Two-phase frictional multiplier was determined as a function of Martinelli parameter. The two-phase forced convective component of the local boiling heat transfer coefficient was found to be well correlated with the Reynolds number factor. A superposition method for the flow boiling heat transfer coefficient that included the contribution of saturated nucleate boiling was verified also for flow boiling in a channel with offset strip fins. The predictions of local flow boiling heat transfer coefficients were found to be in good agreement with experimental data.

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