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Experimental study of the boundary between single-phase convection and boiling in underheated cryogenic liquids

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The effect of pressure and underheating on the position of the boundary between heat-transfer regimes in liquid helium and hydrogen is investigated.

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Abbreviations

q:

heat flux

p:

pressure

ϑ=Ts−Tι :

underheating

Ts :

saturation temperature

Tζ :

temperature of liquid

ΔT=Twa − Tι :

ΔTs=Twa − Ts

Twa :

temperature of heat-emitting surface

A,a, B, b, C:

constants

m, n:

indices

Nu:

Nusselt number

Ra:

Rayleigh number

λ:

thermal conductivity

β:

coefficient of cubical expansion

ν :

kinematic viscosity

g:

acceleration

σ:

standard deviation

01:

conditions of convection-boiling transition

02:

conditions of boiling-convection transition

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 5–11, January, 1982.

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Kirichenko, Y.A., Kozlov, S.M., Rusanov, K.V. et al. Experimental study of the boundary between single-phase convection and boiling in underheated cryogenic liquids. Journal of Engineering Physics 42, 1–6 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00824981

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