THE BOILING INTERFACE IN A MISALIGNED 2-PHASE MECHANICAL SEAL

Authors
ETSION I PASCOVICI MD BURSTEIN L
Citation
I. Etsion et al., THE BOILING INTERFACE IN A MISALIGNED 2-PHASE MECHANICAL SEAL, Journal of tribology, 119(2), 1997, pp. 265-271
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Mechanical
Journal title
Journal of tribology → ACNP
ISSN journal
07424787
Volume
119
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
265 - 271
Database
ISI
SICI code
0742-4787(1997)119:2<265:TBIIAM>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
The boiling interface in a misaligned two-phase mechanical seal is ana lyzed using a complete thermohydrodynamic approach that requires compl ex simultaneous iterative solutions of the nonaxisymmetric heat transf er and phase-change problems. It is shown that under certain operating conditions, characterized by a modified Sommerfeld number, several ap proximate solutions with various levels of simplification can be utili zed to calculate the boiling radius.