Bubble behavior parameters extraction and analysis during pool boiling based on deep-learning method

Yanwei Zhao

doi:10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2024.104979

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Bubble behavior parameters extraction and analysis during pool boiling based on deep-learning method

2024-11-01

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DOI：10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2024.104979

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The nucleate pool boiling plays an important role in thermal and chemical engineering applications. Analyzing bubble dynamics at nucleation site is crucial to improve the understanding of boiling heat transfer mechanism. Quantitative extraction of bubble parameters from high-speed visualized images is a labor-intensitive and timeconsuming task making it necessary for automatically detect single bubble growth and measure boiling characteristic parameters. In the present work, we proposed a deep learning based self-adaptive statistical algorithm for extraction of bubble behavior parameters quickly and automatically from numerous high-speed visualization images looking from the side view of a boiling chamber. A dataset was constructed for training and performance evaluation based on experimental data of saline solution pool boiling. The StarDist and U-Net convolutional neural network were combined in the algorithm so that more exact segmentation of the bubbles can be identified. Based on the segmentation results, a post-processing program was developed to extract the sequential variation of bubbles during consecutive cycles at nucleation sites. The dynamic characteristic parameters that affect heat transfer, such as nucleation density, bubble departure diameter, departure frequency, and wait time under different heat flux were obtained quantitatively. The comparison of automatic extraction algorithm and manual processing proves the reliability and superiority of our method. This work indicates that the proposed method has great potential to be widely applied as an efficient and universal tool for processing different types of bubble shadowgraph images.

Keywords:

Deep learning

Bubble instance segmentation

Bubble behaviors extraction

Nucleate pool boiling

Continuous growth cycle