Pool boiling heat transfer characteristics of Al2O3 -water nanofluids is studied experimentally using a NiCr test wire of 36 standard wire guage diameter. The experimental work mainly concentrated on (1) change of critical heat flux with different volume concentrations of nanofluid and (2) flow visualization of pool boiling using a fixed concentration of nanofluid at different heat flux values....

Downward/opposed flame spread over laboratory wire samples under varied gravity conditions were investigated in the range from 0 G to 1 G. Reduced experiments are conducted by parabolic flights of an airplane. Limiting oxygen concentrations (LOCs) and rates (Vf) obtained as a function level, with concentration, forced flow velocity, characteristics such insulation thickness core material experi...