Boiling incipience of highly wetting liquids in horizontal confined space

✍ Scribed by V Dupont; M Miscevic; J.L Joly; V Platel

• Book ID: 104135902
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 457 KB
• Volume: 46
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0017-9310
• DOI: 10.1016/s0017-9310(03)00268-0

✦ Synopsis

This study concerns boiling incipience of highly wetting liquids (n-pentane), in transient conditions, in horizontal confined space between a vertical heating cylinder and a disk. The two controlled parameters were the heat flux, ranging from 50 to 200 kW m À2 and the thickness of the liquid in the confined space, ranging from 0 to 240 lm. Experiments were conducted with both smooth and porous disks. The results suggest that in the porous-disk configuration, boiling could appear on the non-heated wall.