Microchannel Phase Change Transport Phenomena

Dr. Sujoy Kumar Saha is in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur for nearly twenty years. He is currently Professor in the Department and Prof. Saha was the Chairman of the Department during 2012-2014. Professor Saha specializes in teaching and research in heat Transfer, thermodynamics, refrigeration and air conditioning and fluid mechanics in undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level. He is the Director of Heat Transfer and Thermodynamics Laboratory of the institute. Professor Saha is in the Editorial Boards and the Editorial Advisory Boards of several leading international heat transfer and fluid mechanics journals. He is a Fellow of ASME and IMechE, London, Chartered Engineer of Engineering Council of UK, Member of American Chemical Society and Fellow of Indian Science Congress Association among several other learned societies. Prof. Saha serves, as a Member, in the International Scientific Council of International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer and the Assembly of World Conferences on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics.

Introduction

Scale differentiation

Flow pattern with bubble growth

Heat transfer with models

Pressure drop

Instabilities

Onset of nucleate boiling

Void fraction

Liquid film thickness

Critical heat flux

Condensation and boiling enhancement

Convective condensation

Predictive methods

Conclusion