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Water drop impact onto a hot surface: heat transfer in the nucleate boiling
regime
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U0 = 0.3 − 3.0 m/s can be produced. The effective
drop velocity and diameter is calculated by image
PC-System post-processing.
DG
Observation of drop impact phenomena
d0
D Various thermodynamic regimes [19] which has
U0 LED been observed in the experiments for different sur-
Cam face temperatures are shown in Figure 2: (a) convec-
S
H tion boiling, (b) nucleate boiling, (c) transition boil-
ing, and (d) film boiling. For temperatures slightly
above the saturation temperature, little or no bub-
Thermo-Controller bles can be observed inside the drop; therefore the
drop vaporizes relatively slowly. At higher surface
(a) Setup A, for side view. temperatures, drop evaporation is caused mainly
by nucleate boiling. Small vapor bubbles arise fre-
quently at the drop surface interface, quickly in-
crease and suddenly separate from the surface due
their own lift. The bubbles ascend through the drop
and may coalesce with other bubbles. Various fine
PC-System secondary droplets are produced when the bubbles
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break through the drop surface and consequently
D collapse.
d0
D The transition boiling regime is a transient
U0
regime between nucleate boiling and film boiling.
Cam LED
The vapor bubble generation rate rises quickly,
S caused by the high wall temperature. Consequently,
H
bubbles coalesce and form a vapor layer over some
portions of the area between the drop and the sur-
Cam
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(a) convection boiling (a) drop depostion
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t = −3.6 ms t = 2.0 ms t = 30.4 ms t = 160 ms t = 290 ms
Figure 4. Exemplary drop impact in the nucleate boiling regime for the surface temperature T0 = 130 ◦ C
and the impact parameters d0 = 2.15 mm, U0 = 0.7 m/s, Reynolds number Re = 1500.
Re = 4200
1.5 the wetted area of the drop is already covered by
vapor bubbles, which is a much shorter time com-
pared to overall drop contact time tc . The bubble
1 contact lines move on the substrate, since the bub-
ble diameter changes in time: periodically increasing
due to evaporation until the drop detaches [20]. The
0.5 temperature condition between the substrate surface
and the drop is not uniform and very complex. It is
governed by the appearance, growth and motion of
0 the vapor bubbles within the drop. Only the tem-
110 120 130 140 150 160 perature at the moving contact lines of the bubbles,
Surface temperature T0 [◦ C] where liquid vaporizes, is known. It has to be equal
to the the saturation temperature Tsat . For this very
Figure 5. Drop contact time in nucleate boiling reason the temperature distribution in the present
regime for various initial wall temperatures T0 and analyst is approximated by the uniform saturation
impact parameters Re (constant d0 = 2.15 mm and temperature Tsat at the drop/surface interface, since
various impact velocities U0 ). the continuous moving contact lines form a network
of lines of constant saturation temperatures. Such
analysis is not an exact solution and is only valid in
the total time until the drop fully evaporates. It is case of the nucleate boiling regime. Nevertheless, it
an important quantity, which strongly influences the allows us to roughly estimate the heat transfer and
heat flux from the substrate to the drop. As such, gives us an important scale.
this quantity is a necessary element of any spray As already shown in [19] the overall energy bal-
cooling model. In Fig. 5 the drop contact time tc ance of heat transfer from the evaporating sessile
is shown as a function of the initial surface temper- drop and the heat flux from the substrate can be
ature T0 . It is quite obvious, that in the nucleate written as
boiling regime the contact time tc significantly de- Z tc
creases with increasing initial surface temperature, πd3
Ac (t)q̇(t) dt ≈ ρl L∗ 0 , (2)
whereas the contact time tc is not influenced by the 0 6
impact velocity U0 . The drop contact time tc is ex-
pressed well by the relation where q̇ is the heat flux density at the solid/liquid
interface, Ac is the contact area, ρl is the density of
tc ∼ (T0 − Tsat )−1.92 . (1) the liquid, d0 is the initial drop diameter, and L∗ =
L+∆H0 is the sum of the latent heat of evaporation
obtained by fitting the experimental data. L and the enthalpy difference ∆H0 between initial
drop and saturated liquid, respectively. Equation
Evaluation of heat transfer during nucleate boiling (2) is based on the assumption that the energy only
Immediately after the drop impact, heat trans- goes into evaporating the drop. This assumption is
fer is initiated in the hot substrate and in the im- only valid in the nucleate boiling regime.
pacting drop. Inside the solid substrate the heat is Immediately after√ the drop impact, a thermal
transferred by conduction, while the heat transfer boundary layer δT ∼ αw t develops in the hot solid
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t = 0.6 ms t = 1.6 ms t = 3.2 ms t = 5.9 ms t = 8.5 ms
Figure 6. Exemplary bottom view through a transparent substrate on a water drop during nucleate boiling.
Ac ≈ kw πd20 , (7)
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kw = 1.6 is determined from a fitting to the exper-
imental data. This parameter is the same for all
20
Eq. (10) the substrates used in the experiments, since their
Dimensionless contact time τc [-]
Figure 8. Dimensionless contact time from this In many cases these values (∼ 106 W/m2 ) are
study as well as from literature data [22, 23, 24, much larger than heat flux densities achieved by
25] as a function of the scaled wall temperature steady sprays [28, 29], because dense sprays create
Θ, in comparison with the theoretical prediction a continuous water film, which reduces the heat flux
(Eq. (10)). The initial drop diameter in the ex- density significantly.
periments ranges from 2.1 to 4.6 mm and the solid
Nomenclature
substrate are polished aluminum, carbon steel, and
α thermal diffusivity
stainless steel.
cp specific heat capacity
d0 drop diameter
δT thermal boundary layer
∆H0 enthalpy difference
e thermal effusivity
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Eq. (10) kw dimensionless coefficient
Dimensionless contact time τc [-]
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