關鍵字: 流道表面，表面粗糙度，沸騰熱傳增強，碰撞流動，汽泡流動，臨界熱通量 ;In this thesis pool boiling experiment is carried out on open trapezoidal channel surface to study the effect of channel top width (0.4mm, 0.8mm, 1.4mm and 2.0mm) and fin pitch using saturated methanol as working fluid at one atmospheric pressure along with bubble dynamic visualisation. The channel were cut using wire electro-discharge machining technique and results are compared with corresponding plane surfaces. Plain boiling surface with comparatively high roughness value (manufactured by wire electro-discharge machining) consistently showed higher heat transfer performance than emery surface with lower roughness value. All channel surfaces performed better than plain surface prepared by emery paper. For all the tested trapezoidal channel surfaces, bubbles only generated from the channel surface because of high roughness on channel surface. There was no bubble generation from fin top surface. Therefore overall channel surface area played major role along with the effect of channel geometry on HTC & CHF and the results are meant to compare with plain surface made by EDM process. Two distinctive bubble dynamics are observed as the channel top width increased. For channel having top width 0.4mm, single bubble generated across the channel and it attached to channel side surface and grew on top of channel till the departure. Therefore the heat transfer performance increased as the fin pitch reduced. But in comparison with Plain EDM surface, its nucleate boiling HTC found to be lower because overall available boiling surface area (ie channel surface area) is lower. From channel having top width 0.8mm to 2.0mm, number of nucleation sites across channel surface increased accordingly with the channel cross section area. Therefore multiple bubble nucleation sites were observed. On these channel top width surfaces, a heat transfer enhancement mechanism observed. Therefore even though the channel surface area was lower than that of plain EDM surface, nucleate boiling HTC were either equal or more than plain EDM surface observed. Reduction in fin pitch had no major effect on HTC. For channel made by EDM process having different roughness value in comparison with fin top surface has different liquid and vapor flow path ways. Majority of the liquid supply to rewet the boiling surface (i.e channel surface) were from fin top surface. As the fin pitch decreases, CHF found to increase for all tested channel top widths because of increases in channel surface area as well as enhancement in heat transfer mechanism over channel surface.
