Surface wettability is recognized as playing an important role in pool boiling and the corresponding heat transfer curve. In this work, a systematic study of pool boiling heat transfer on smooth surfaces of varying wettability (contact angle range of 5° - 180°) has been conducted and reported. Based on numerical simulations, boiling curves are calculated and boiling dynamics in each regime are ...

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...

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...

0017-9310/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2009.06.023 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 979 845 4500; fax E-mail address: [email protected] (D. Banerjee The class of dynamics in pool boiling on a large-size heater is assessed under subcooled pool boiling conditions. Transient surface temperature measurements are obtained using surface micro-machined K-ty...

A brief review of recent low gravity boiling research by investigators based in the United States is performed. Topics covered include bubble dynamics, nucleate pool boiling and CHF, transition boiling, boiling of mixtures, electric ˆeld eŠects, acoustic ˆeld eŠects, and ‰ow boiling. Planned research activities and recommendations for future

Nucleate pool boiling heat transfer coefficients of Al2O3-water and TiO2-water nanofluids have been experimentally measured on three horizontal tubes with different materials and similar roughness under atmospheric pressure. Results revealed that the presence of nanoparticles in the base fluid leads to an increase in pool boiling heat transfer coefficients on stainless steel and brass tubes in ...

In the present paper, the characteristic atmospheric pool boiling curve is qualitatively reproduced for water on a temperature controlled thin copper strip having comparable length and breadth by the coupled map lattice (CML) method using a three-dimensional boiling field model. The basic objective of the work is to improve the prediction of the critical heat flux (CHF) with respect to the 2D C...