Capillary-assisted flow and evaporation inside circumferential rectangular micro groove

Abstract To introduce capillary-assisted evaporation from micro-size fields to normal-size fields, an inclined circumferential micro groove with rectangular cross sections is investigated analytically and a systematic mathematical model is developed. The model is composed of five sub-models: a natural convection model, a liquid axial flow model, a heat transfer model in and below the intrinsic meniscus, an evaporation thin film region model and an adsorbed region model. In this model, for the extended meniscuses formed at groove cross sections, both the intrinsic meniscus and evaporation thin film region are considered when calculating heat absorbing. Through solving the model, the influences of dynamic contact angle on the heat absorbing in the intrinsic meniscus and evaporation thin film region are investigated. Moreover, the factors affecting the whole-groove equivalent heat transfer coefficient have been investigated.

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