PREFACE: CRITICAL HEAT FLUX

Critical heat flux around strongly heated nanoparticles.

We study heat transfer from a heated nanoparticle into surrounding fluid using molecular dynamics simulations. We show that the fluid next to the nanoparticle can be heated well above its boiling point without a phase change. Under increasing nanoparticle temperature, the heat flux saturates, which is in sharp contrast with the case of flat interfaces, where a critical heat flux is observed fol...

Experimental Study for Investigating the Mechanism of Heat Transfer near the Critical Heat Flux in Nucleate Pool Boiling

Heat transfer coefficient in nucleate pool boiling near critical heat flux at least one orderhigher than the convectional heat transfer modes. In this paper, an experimental setup isdesigned and fabricated to investigate the mechanism of heat transfer from boiling surface tobulk liquid near critical heat flux. The images of pool boiling near the high heat flux regionreveals that the individual ...

Critical Heat Flux in Subcooled Flow Boiling of Water

A Genetic Hybrid For Critical Heat Flux Function Approximation

Function approximation is the problem of nding a function that best explains the relationship between independent variables and a dependent variable. We propose a genetic hybrid for the critical heat ux function approximation which critically a ects the performance of nuclear plants. The problem is represented for genetic algorithm in a way that exploits the relationships between parameters. Th...

Critical heat flux in thin, uniform particle coatings

Pool boiling on thin, uniform porous coatings is examined experimentally using different copper particle diameters (between 40 and 80 lm), fabrications (loosely packed, shaken, or pressed), and particle characteristics (solid or porous particle) with coating thickness varying between 3 and 5 particle diameters. The results show that the critical heat flux (CHF) is about 1.8 times for all the co...