A coupled level-set and volume-of-fluid (CLSVOF) method for prediction of microgravity flow boiling with low inlet subcooling on the international space station

I Mudawar, S Kim, J Lee - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2023 - Elsevier
The present study is part of a series of NASA-supported investigations of flow boiling of n-
perfluorohexane (n-PFH, C 6 F 14) under microgravity on the International Space Station …

Critical heat flux for flow boiling with saturated two-phase inlet in microgravity onboard the International Space Station

I Mudawar, SJ Darges, VS Devahdhanush - International Journal of Heat …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study examines data collected as part of the “Flow Boiling and Condensation
Experiment”(FBCE), which collected microgravity flow boiling data onboard the International …

Microgravity flow boiling experiments with liquid-vapor mixture inlet onboard the International Space Station

I Mudawar, VS Devahdhanush, SJ Darges… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
This article is part of a series of studies culminating from the multi-objective Flow Boiling and
Condensation Experiment (FBCE) onboard the International Space Station, which utilized …

A Review of Novel Heat Transfer Materials and Fluids for Aerospace Applications

G Nobrega, B Cardoso, R Souza, J Pereira, P Pontes… - Aerospace, 2024 - mdpi.com
The issue of thermal control for space missions has been critical since the early space
missions in the late 1950s. The demands in such environments are heightened …

A circle-based interface reconstruction algorithm based on the coupled volume-of-fluid and level set method

Y Chen, J Gong, W Lu, B Wang, D Sun, B Yu… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The interface tends to behave as a circular shape under the effect of surface tension in the
two-dimensional two-phase fluid flow. In this study, based on the coupled volume-of-fluid …

Cooling process analysis using the energy-flow-diagram method for the complex heat dissipation network with a typical space station cabin

M Yuan, YZ Li, Y Sun - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
The large thermal inertia, multiple mass storage links, and various heat dissipation modes
will seriously affect the cooling process for complex spacecraft. The energy-flow-diagram …

Two-phase flow instabilities during microgravity flow boiling onboard the International Space Station

I Mudawar, SJ Darges, VS Devahdhanush… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study is an elaboration on flow instabilities observed during flow boiling experiments
conducted onboard the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the Flow Boiling and …

Numerical and experimental evaluation of flow boiling heat transfer in microchannels for R452B refrigerant

YT Lee, IJ Wang, JJ Su - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2024 - Elsevier
Energy management efficiency is crucial for the increasingly severe global energy
challenges. Low global warming potential (GWP) refrigerant R452B used in air conditioning …

Fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics of a microstructured microchannel heat sink under flow boiling condition

A Rajalingam, S Chakraborty - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
A microchannel heat sink (MCHS) is known as a heat dissipation device from the
miniaturized electronic components and devices due to its capability to dissipate high heat …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental investigations on the flow boiling and heat transfer characteristics during chilldown process in a closed loop chilldown test section

JK Narayanan, JW Hartwig, JR Mackey… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, closed loop chilldown experiments are performed on a 0.009525 m outer
diameter SS-316 tube of length 0.6 m and thickness 0.001651 m in a horizontal flow …