Two-phase flows and heat transfer
Summary
This course covers the fundamental and practical analysis of two-phase flow and heat transfer in various contexts including power generation, water purification, and cooling. Students will learn about the multiscale physics involved in evaporation, boiling, and condensation.
Content
1. Introduction to liquid-vapor phase change phenomena
2. Capillarity and wetting
3. Evaporation physics (diffusion-based model, kinetic theory treatment)
4. Homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation
5. Pool boiling (onset of nucleation, nucleate boiling, critical heat flux,...)
6. Condensation (filmwise, dropwise, jumping droplet)
7. Flow boiling (flow regimes, pressure oscillation,...)
Keywords
Interfacial phenomena, evaporation, boiling, condensation
Learning Prerequisites
Required courses
Undergraduate level courses in fluid mechanics and heat transfer
Recommended courses
Important concepts to start the course
Basic understanding of:
- heat conduction, heat convection, and fluid flow
- thermodynamics of pure fluids
- mass, momentum, and energy conservation on both differential and finite control volume basis
Basic skills in MATLAB or a computer langauge of your choice.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student must be able to:
- Explain a variety of capillarity-driven interfacial phenomena
- Analyze energy transport mechanisms in liquid-vapor phase change
- Model heat and mass transfer during phase change
- Optimize phase-change component of certain energy and water systems
Transversal skills
- Plan and carry out activities in a way which makes optimal use of available time and other resources.
- Demonstrate the capacity for critical thinking
- Communicate effectively, being understood, including across different languages and cultures.
- Use both general and domain specific IT resources and tools
Teaching methods
The course is organized with lectures and exercises.
Assessment methods
50% Homework + 50% Final Exam.
Supervision
| Assistants | Yes |
Resources
Bibliography
1. Liquid-Vapor Phase-Change Phenomena, An Introduction to the Thermophysics of Vaporization and Condensation Processes in Heat Transfer Equipment, Third Edition By Van P. Carey
2. A heat transfer textebook Version 5.10, Lienhardt IV and Lienhardt V, https://ahtt.mit.edu/
Ressources en bibliothèque
In the programs
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Two-phase flows and heat transfer
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Two-phase flows and heat transfer
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Two-phase flows and heat transfer
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Two-phase flows and heat transfer
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Two-phase flows and heat transfer
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks