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Title: Review of subcooled flow boiling critical heat flux (CHF) and its application to fusion energy system components part II: microconvective, experimental and correlational aspects

Conference · · HTD (Publ.) (Am. Soc. Mech. Eng.); (United States)
OSTI ID:5324675

This paper reviews the present understanding of critical heat flux (CHF) in subcooled flow boiling and outlines research directions which will permit the accommodation of higher heat fluxes. This survey, which covers the last 30 years, is concerned only with CHF in the subcooled flow boiling regime and unless otherwise noted, all references to CHF will be confined to that regime. This paper (Part II) summarizes microconvective, instability, experimental and correlational aspects of CHF. Section II covers microconvection and instabilities, section III covers representative experimental work, and section IV summarizes and compares selected CHF correlations. Section V documents previous flow visualization work and section VI contains conclusions and recommendations concerning problem areas and suggested research directions essential to the HHFCDP, which involves extending steady state and transient CHF towards 30 kW/cm/sup 2/.

Research Organization:
Sandia Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-76DP00789
OSTI ID:
5324675
Report Number(s):
CONF-830702-; TRN: 84-006380
Journal Information:
HTD (Publ.) (Am. Soc. Mech. Eng.); (United States), Vol. HTD. VOL. 24; Conference: 21. ASME/AIChE national heat transfer conference, Seattle, WA, USA, 24 Jul 1983
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English