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Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Nucleate Pool Boiling in Saturated Liquid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2015

Yoshito Tanaka ,
Masato Yoshino  and
Tetsuo Hirata
Yoshito Tanaka*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and System Development Engineering, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shinshu University, 4-17-1, Wakasato, Nagano-shi, Nagano 380-8553, Japan
Masato Yoshino*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University, Nagano-shi, Nagano 380-8553, Japan CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 4-1-8, Honcho, Kawaguchi-shi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
Tetsuo Hirata*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University, Nagano-shi, Nagano 380-8553, Japan
*
Email:s07t254@shinshu-u.ac.jp
Corresponding author.Email:masato@shinshu-u.ac.jp
Email:hirata@shinshu-u.ac.jp
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Abstract

A thermal lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) for two-phase fluid flows in nucleate pool boiling process is proposed. In the present method, a new function for heat transfer is introduced to the isothermal LBM for two-phase immiscible fluids with large density differences. The calculated temperature is substituted into the pressure tensor, which is used for the calculation of an order parameter representing two phases so that bubbles can be formed by nucleate boiling. By using this method, two-dimensional simulations of nucleate pool boiling by a heat source on a solid wall are carried out with the boundary condition for a constant heat flux. The flow characteristics and temperature distribution in the nucleate pool boiling process are obtained. It is seen that a bubble nucleation is formed at first and then the bubble grows and leaves the wall, finally going up with deformation by the buoyant effect. In addition, the effects of the gravity and the surface wettability on the bubble diameter at departure are numerically investigated. The calculated results are in qualitative agreement with other theoretical predictions with available experimental data.

Keywords

76T1076M2880A22Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM)two-phase fluid flowsheat transfernucleate pool boilingwettability
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Research Article
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Communications in Computational Physics , Volume 9 , Issue 5 , May 2011 , pp. 1347 - 1361
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Copyright © Global Science Press Limited 2011

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