TY - JFULL AU - Rahim Jafari and Tuba Okutucu-Özyurt PY - 2015/5/ TI - CFD Modeling of Boiling in a Microchannel Based On Phase-Field Method T2 - International Journal of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering SP - 631 EP - 636 VL - 9 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10001158 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 100, 2015 N2 - The hydrodynamics and heat transfer characteristics of a vaporized elongated bubble in a rectangular microchannel have been simulated based on Cahn-Hilliard phase-field method. In the simulations, the initially nucleated bubble starts growing as it comes in contact with superheated water. The growing shape of the bubble compared well with the available experimental data in the literature. ER -