Publications by John Richard Thome

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The application of flow boiling in microchannels in copper cooling elements for very high heat flux dissipation from microprocessor chips is one of the promising technologies to replace air cooling and water cooling of these units, particularly in mainfram ...

In the second part of this study a sensitivity analysis on the prediction methods is performed to consider the effect of plate geometry on thermal hydraulic performance and an extensive comparison of all the two-phase pressure drop and flow boiling heat tr ...

Xu et al. have recently published a set of results for boiling heat transfer measurements in a multi- channel micro- scale evaporator for flow boiling of acetone in triangular cross- section channels ( hydraulic diameter of 155.4 mm). In the present collab ...

The present study presents new flow boiling heat transfer results of R-134a flowing inside a 13.84 mm internal diameter, smooth horizontal copper tube. The heat transfer measurements were made over a wide range of test conditions: saturation temperatures o ...

An innovative Flexible Coupled Level Set (LS) and Volume of Fluid (VOF) algorithm (flexCLV) to simulate two-phase flows at the microscale on unstructured and non-uniform meshes is proposed. The method combines the advantages of the VOF method in terms of m ...

Passive, gravity-driven thermosyphons represent a stepchange in technology towards the goal of greatly reducing PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) of datacenters by replacing energy hungry fans of air-cooling approach with a highly-reliable solution able to d ...

In the present study, a simulation code specifically developed to evaluate the thermal-hydraulic performance of thermosyphon cooling loops is validated through the experimental results obtained in the Part 1. It considers levels of heat load conventionally ...

A key parameter in designing two-phase flow systems for the cooling of high heat flux electronics is the pressure drop in microchannel evaporators. As a result, an experimental study was performed to investigate the flow boiling pressure drop of refrigeran ...

This paper presents experimental results for flow boiling heat transfer coefficient and critical heat flux (CHF) in small flattened tubes. The tested flattened tubes have the same equivalent internal diameter of 2.2 mm, but different aspect height/width ra ...

The flow pattern based flow boiling heat transfer and two-phase pressure drop models for CO2, recently developed by Cheng et al. [L Cheng, G. Ribatski. J. Moreno Quiben, J.R. Thome, New prediction methods for CO2 evaporation inside tubes: Part I - A two-phase flow pattern map and a flow pattern based phenomenological model for two-phase flow frictional pressure drops, Int. J. Heat Mass transfer 51 (2008) 111-124; L Cheng, G. Ribatski, J.R. Thome, New prediction methods for CO2 evaporation inside tubes: Part

The study considers the prediction of pressure gradients in adiabatic gas-liquid annular two-phase flow in the macro-to-microscale range Twenty-four empirical correlations have been tested against an experimental data bank drawn together in this study cont ...

This article presents an experimental study of upward flow boiling heat transfer in multiport tubes. Usually, multiport tubes are utilized horizontally in automotive and air-conditioning systems while here there is interest in vertical flow as part of a two-phase thermosyphon electronics cooling system. Experiments were carried out in a flat aluminum extruded multiport tube, which was composed of 7 parallel rectangular channels (1.1mm × 2.1mm) with a hydraulic diameter of 1.4 mm. Two refrigerants, R245fa an

Advances in the development of micro- and nanostructured surfaces have enabled tremendous progress in delineation of mechanisms in boiling heat transfer and have propelled the rapid enhancement of heat transfer rates. This area of research is poised to mak ...

Experiments of flow boiling heat transfer were conducted in four horizontal flattened smooth copper tubes of two different heights of 2 and 3 mm. The equivalent diameters of the flattened tubes are 8.6, 7.17, 6.25, and 5.3 mm. The working fluids were R22 a ...

The present study focused on improving the thermal performance of CO2 evaporators while reducing their volume and thus significantly reducing the working fluid charge. To achieve this, the leading two-phase flow pattern and physically-based prediction mode ...

The study considers algebraic turbulence modeling in adiabatic gas-liquid annular two-phase flow. After reviewing the existing literature, two new algebraic turbulence models are proposed for both the liquid film and the droplet laden gas core of annular t ...

A hybrid on-chip two-phase cooling cycle specifically designed to cool server boards with chips of high performance computers was experimentally evaluated considering steady-state and transient operation of two parallel pseudo-chips and auxiliary electroni ...

A new prediction method for the frictional pressure drop in annular two-phase flow is presented. This new prediction method focuses on the aerodynamic interaction between the liquid film and the gas core in annular flows, and explicitly takes into account ...

The study considers the prediction of the entrained liquid fraction in adiabatic gas-liquid annular two-phase flow in vertical pipes. Nine empirical correlations have been tested against an experimental data bank drawn together in this study containing 150 ...

Local test results for two enhanced condensing tubes (next-generation versions of the Wieland Gewa and Wolverine Turbo enhanced condensing tubes) are obtained for refrigerants R-134a and R-236fa on the center row of a three row-wide tube bundle. The "bundl ...

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Critical Heat Flux During Flow Boiling in Microchannels: A Parametric Study

Flow boiling and frictional pressure gradients in plate heat exchangers. Part 2: Comparison of literature methods to database and new prediction methods

On the prediction of heat transfer in micro-scale flow boiling

Flow boiling in horizontal smooth tubes: New heat transfer results for R-134a at three saturation temperatures

A Flexible Coupled Level Set and Volume of Fluid (flexCLV) method to simulate microscale two-phase flow in non-uniform and unstructured meshes

Compact Thermosyphon Cooling System For High Heat Flux Servers: Validation Of Thermosyphon Simulation Code Considering New Test Data

Two-Phase Mini-Thermosyphon Electronics Cooling, Part 2: Model and Steady-State Validations

An experimental study on flow boiling pressure drop in multi-microchannel evaporators with different refrigerants

Saturated flow boiling heat transfer and critical heat flux in small horizontal flattened tubes

Cooling of microprocessors using flow boiling of CO2 in a micro-evaporator: Preliminary analysis and performance comparison

Unified macro-to-microscale method to predict two-phase frictional pressure drops of annular flows

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON FLOW BOILING HEAT TRANSFER OF MULTIPORT TUBES WITH R245fa AND R1234ze(E)

Boiling Augmentation With Micro/Nanostructured Surfaces: Current Status And Research Outlook

Flow boiling in horizontal flattened tubes: Part II – Flow boiling heat transfer results and model

Working fluid charge reduction, part 1: CO2 fin-tube evaporator designed for light commercial appliances utilizing flow pattern based phenomenological prediction models

Algebraic turbulence modeling in adiabatic gas–liquid annular two-phase flow

Dynamic flow control and performance comparison of different concepts of two-phase on-chip cooling cycles

Pressure drop prediction in annular two-phase flow in macroscale tubes and channels

Prediction of the entrained liquid fraction in vertical annular gas–liquid two-phase flow

Film Condensation of R-134a and R-236fa, Part 2: Experimental Results and Predictive Correlation for Bundle Condensation on Enhanced Tubes