Heat transfer correlations for jet impingement boiling over micro-pin-finned surface

Heat transfer performance of submerged jet impingement boiling over staggered micro-pin-finned surfaces was investigated using air-dissolved FC-72. The dimension of the silicon chips is 10 × 10 × 0.5 mm3 (length × width × thickness) on staggered micro-pin-fins with four dimensions of 30 × 30 × 60 μm3, 50 × 50 × 60 μm3, 30 × 30 × 120 μm3 and 50 × 50 × 120 μm3 (width × thickness × height, named S-PF30-60, S-PF50-60, S-PF30-120, and S-PF50-120) were fabricated by using the dry etching technique. The effects of micro-pin-fins, jet-to-target distance (H = 3, 6, and 9 mm), and jet Reynolds number (Re = 2853, 5707, and 8560) on jet impingement boiling heat transfer performance were explored. For comparison, experiments with jet impinging on a smooth surface were also conducted. The results showed that all micro-pin-finned surfaces show better heat transfer performance than that of a smooth surface. The largest Nusselt number is 1367, corresponding to a heat transfer coefficient of 26387 W·m−2·K−1 with S-PF30-120 at Re = 8560, H/d = 2, and q = 151 W·cm−2, which is approximately twice the largest Nusselt number of Chip S. In the single-phase heat-transfer-dominant region, the Nusselt number (Nu) is mainly influenced by several dimensionless numbers, including Reynolds number (Re), boiling number (Bo), the ratio of jet-to-target distance to jet diameter (H/d), the ratio of micro-pin-finned surface area to smooth surface area A/AS, and a dimensionless number corresponding to flow resistance Dh/Lh. Correlations to predict Nu in both single-phase heat-transfer-dominant region and two-phase heat-transfer-dominant region for smooth and micro-pin-finned surfaces were proposed. The results show that most data (96%) in the single-phase heat-transfer-dominant region and most data (96%) in the two-phase heat-transfer-dominant region were predicted within ±13% and ±15%, respectively. In addition, CHF correlations for smooth and micro-pin-finned surfaces were also proposed, and most data (95%) are predicted within ±20% for a smooth surface and all the data within ±5% for the micro-pin-finned surfaces.