Nucleate pool boiling in variable gravity
Abstract
The basic mechanisms of nucleate pool boiling and the state of understanding of those mechanisms are reviewed. Experimental techniques for studying nucleate pool boiling at high and reduced gravities are examined in detail. Limitations in extrapolating short-term observed behaviors to long-term behavior are pointed out.
- Publication:
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Low-Gravity Fluid Dynamics and Transport Phenomena
- Pub Date:
- 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990lgfd.proc...15M
- Keywords:
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- Convective Heat Transfer;
- High Gravity Environments;
- Nucleate Boiling;
- Reduced Gravity;
- Superheating;
- Bubbles;
- Drop Towers;
- Free Convection;
- Nucleation;
- Temperature Effects;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer