Course abstract

The course is designed to provide the participants a basic idea of multiphase flow and flow boiling heat transfer in microchannels. This is pertinent in the current trend of miniaturization as a means of process intensification and is frequently encountered in pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries, microchip cooling and flow through porous medium. The present course discusses the underlying fluid mechanical principles governing multiphase flow in micro vis a vis macro domain, influence of operating parameters on flow morphology, different experimental techniques and pattern based analysis relevant in this scale as well as the uniqueness of flow boiling heat transfer in microchannels.