Nucleate Boiling in Thermally Developing and Fully Developed Laminar Falling Water Films
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This paper reports an experimental investigation of nucleate boiling in thin water films falling down the outside of a cylindrical heated tube. A mathematical model for the convective (nonboiling) heat transfer coefficient in the laminar thermal entry length was developed and used as a comparison to the experimental boiling heat transfer coefficients. A heat transfer correlation based on mechanistic arguments is presented and is shown to represent the experimental data fairly well. The experimental data were also compared with existing heat transfer data in the literature. The flow rates utilized in this study corresponded to a Reynolds number range from 670 and 4300 and the heat flux range was 6 to 70 kW/m2.
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1962 ◽
Vol 84
(4)
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pp. 365-371
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