Boiling Two-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer in Concentric Annular Tube

The boiling flow resistance and heat transfer characteristics is experimentally investigated under the outer tube wall heating condition in a concentric annular tube with 2.1mm gap size. The results show that the flow resistance in the annular tube is greater than that in circular tube, as well as the boiling heat transfer becomes enhanced. The heat transfer coefficient has close relationship with the pressure, thermal equilibrium quality, mass flux, heat flux, gap size of the annular tube, and heat models as well. The physical explanation about the enhancement boiling heat transfer in the annular tube is proposed with both micro-film evaporation mechanics and bubble disturbance mechanics. The correlations to calculate the flow friction coefficient and heat transfer coefficient are proposed based on the experimental data.