HOW ACCURATELY CAN WE PREDICT NUCLEATE BOILING

Authors
KOLEV NI
Citation
Ni. Kolev, HOW ACCURATELY CAN WE PREDICT NUCLEATE BOILING, Experimental thermal and fluid science, 10(3), 1995, pp. 370-378
Citations number
57
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Mechanical","Phsycs, Fluid & Plasmas",Thermodynamics
Journal title
Experimental thermal and fluid science → ACNP
ISSN journal
08941777
Volume
10
Issue
3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
370 - 378
Database
ISI
SICI code
0894-1777(1995)10:3<370:HACWPN>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
A new theory of nucleate pool boiling based on turbulence in the bound ary layer induced by bubble growth and departure is presented that inc orporates the effect of the static contact angle and explains the larg e spread in the available experimental data. In addition, an exciting feature of the new theory is demonstrated that has not, to the author' s knowledge, been reported previously in the literature-its ability to predict the critical heat flux with the same correlation.