Experimental investigation of nucleate boiling heat transfer mechanisms for cylinders in water and FC-72
- Univ. of Texas, Arlington, TX (United States). Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
A recently developed photographic method is used to quantify vapor volumetric flow rate above a boiling wire. The volumetric flow rate is combined with additional analyses to determine the overall contributions to the total heat flux from four nucleate boiling heat transfer mechanisms (latent heat, natural convection, Marangoni flow, and micro-convection). This technique is used to quantify the boiling heat transfer mechanisms versus heat flux for a 510-{micro}m wire immersed in saturated water and in water with a small amount of liquid soap added. These data are compared with similar data taken for a 75-{micro}m wire boiling in saturated FC-72. For all cases, latent heat is the dominant heat transfer mechanism in the fully developed nucleate boiling regime. In addition, the latent heat component is significantly increased by the addition of small amounts of soap (surfactant).
- OSTI ID:
- 442577
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950828--; ISBN 0-7918-1707-5
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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