Subcooled Pool Boiling CHFs on Cylinder due to Transient Heat Input

Highly subcooled pool boiling heat transfer at various gravity levels

A microscale heater array 2:7 mm 2:7 mm in size along with a video camera was used to provide subcooled pool boiling heat transfer measurements at gravity levels ranging from 1.8g to 10 g. The fluid was FC-72 at 1 atm and subcooled by nominally 36 C for all cases. A Terrier–Orion sounding rocket and the KC-135 aircraft were used to provide the microgravity and low-g environments, respectively. ...

Heater size and heater aspect ratio effects on subcooled pool boiling heat transfer in low - g

Pool boiling heat transfer measurements using heaters of varying aspect ratio were obtained in low-g (0.01 g ± 0.025 g) aboard the KC-135 aircraft. The heater aspect ratio was varied by selectively powering 2 · 2, 2 · 4, 2 · 6, 2 · 8, and 2 · 10 arrays of heaters in a 10 · 10 heater array containing individual heaters 0.7 · 0.7 mm in size. Electronic control circuitry was used to maintain an is...

Direct Numerical Simulation of Subcooled Nucleate Pool Boiling

With the long-term objective of Critical Heat Flux (CHF) prediction, a Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) framework for simulation of subcooled and saturated nucleate pool boiling is developed. One case of saturated, and three cases of subcooled boiling at different subcooling levels are simulated. Grid refinement study is also reported. Both boiling and condensation phenomena can be computed si...

Transient pool boiling in microgravityt

Transient nucleate pool boiling experiments using R113 are conducted for short times in microgravity and in earth gravity with different heater surface orientations and subcoolings. The heating surface is a transparent gold film sputtered on a quartz substrate, which simultaneously provides surface temperature measurements and permits viewing of the boiling process from beneath. For the microgr...

Critical Heat Flux in Subcooled Flow Boiling of Water