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Title: FINAL REPORT--SECTION 1. AN ANALYSIS OF THE CRITICAL CONDITIONS AND BURNOUT IN BOILING HEAT TRANSFER. PART I. CRITICAL CONDITIONS. PART II. CRITICAL HEAT FLUXES. SECTION 2. A CORRELATION OFBOILING HEAT TRANSFER FROM THE NUCLEATION THEORY--INCLUDING EFFECTS OF SYSTEM ACCELERATION AND FORCED CONVECTION

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:4824112

Certain basic ideas were applied to boiling heat transfer from which several critical conditions were derived and an equation of the maximum heat flux in nuclear boiling was obtained. The heat transfer was considered as being limited by the maximum rate of bubble generation from a unit area of the heating surface. Heat transfer in nucleate boiling with and without forced convection and subcooling was also studied. With an empirical modification of the nucleation theory as developed by Volmer and Eyring from the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution law, an equation was obtained for heat transfer in vigorous boiling. Validity ef this equation was tested for 18 different systems under different pressures. (M.C.G.)

Research Organization:
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind.
DOE Contract Number:
AT(11-1)-785
NSA Number:
NSA-16-004274
OSTI ID:
4824112
Report Number(s):
TID-14004
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-62
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English