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Thermal Dynamics of Growing Bubble and Heat Transfer in Microgravity Pool Boiling

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Physical Science Under Microgravity: Experiments on Board the SJ-10 Recoverable Satellite

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Boiling heat transfer realizes the high-performance heat exchange due to latent heat transportation, and then there are extensive industrial applications on Earth and many potential applications in space. Microgravity experiments offer a unique opportunity to study the complex interactions without external forces, and can also provide a means to study the actual influence of gravity on the pool boiling by comparing the results obtained from microgravity experiments with their counterparts in normal gravity. It will be conductive to revealing of the mechanism underlying the phenomenon, and then developing of more mechanistic models for the related applications both on Earth and in space. The present chapter summarize the up-to-date progress on the understanding of pool boiling phenomenon based on the knowledge obtained from microgravity experiments, focusing particularly on the thermal dynamics of growing bubble and heat transfer in microgravity pool boiling. The gravity scaling behavior, as well as the passive enhancement of heat transfer performance of nucleate pool boiling on flat plates by using micro-pin-finned surface, is presented and discussed in detail. Based on the outcome of the current trends in pool boiling research, some recommendations for future work are also proposed.

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Acknowledgements

The studies presented here were supported financially by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1738105, 11802314, 11672311, 11372327, 11402273, 10972225, 10432060, 51636006, 51611130060), and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (QYZDY-SSW-JSC040, XDA04020404, XDA04020202-04).

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  1. CAS Key Laboratory of Microgravity (National Microgravity Laboratory/CAS), Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), 15 Beisihuanxi Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100190, China

    Wangfang Du, Jianfu Zhao & Kai Li

  2. School of Engineering Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), 19A Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, 100049, China

    Jianfu Zhao & Kai Li

  3. State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 28 Xianning Xilu, Xi’an, 710049, China

    Huixiong Li & Jinjia Wei

  4. School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 28 Xianning Xilu, Xi’an, 710049, China

    Huixiong Li

  5. School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 28 Xianning Xilu, Xi’an, 710049, China

    Yonghai Zhang & Jinjia Wei

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Du, W., Zhao, J., Li, H., Zhang, Y., Wei, J., Li, K. (2019). Thermal Dynamics of Growing Bubble and Heat Transfer in Microgravity Pool Boiling. In: Hu, W., Kang, Q. (eds) Physical Science Under Microgravity: Experiments on Board the SJ-10 Recoverable Satellite. Research for Development. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1340-0_4

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