Pseudo dynamic visualization of boiling two-phase flow under oscillatory flow condition

Although the flow oscillation strongly affects the characteristic of the critical heat flux, the detailed feature of these phenomena had not been fully understood, so far. One of the reasons of the lack of the reports is owing to the characteristics of the flow oscillation, i.e. the flow oscillation is strongly influenced by the operating condition. This means the oscillatory condition changes by the heating condition, thus general discussion becomes difficult. In this series of investigations, the critical heat flux (CHF) was investigated under artificial flow oscillation generated by a mechanical flow oscillator. By using these means, the influence of the flow oscillation was systematically obtained, and several results and model were presented. In this investigation, the similar experimental investigation was conducted to estimate the dynamic movement of the void fraction. In the visualization procedure, 0.03 second exposure image which synchronized with the flow oscillator was taken, and by using the ensemble averaging of 34 images, the image which had enough dynamic range could be reconstructed. (C) 2013 The Authors Published by Elsevier B.V.