Thermal analysis of boiling pot with single coil induction cooker

In this work, a thermal analysis of water boiling using the induction cooking system has been performed. The boiling pot on induction cooker has been simulated by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) with experimental validations. For experimental part, the pot is filled with water and heated by the induction cooker. The temperature of coil, pot, and water is monitored with time varying. For computational part, the multiphase fluid field and solid conduction have been both studied. The heat transfer efficiency of this induction cooking system is estimated as 83.6%. Comparing with experiments, the maximum errors of the bottom pot and coil are 6.1% and 7.9% respectively. The numerical simulation results demonstrate good agreement with experiments. This work offers a better understanding of induction cooking system related dynamics which greatly benefits the practical industry applications.