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The lower limit to the first critical heat flux in weak gravitational fields

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Relationships are derived for the first critical heat flux lower limit is in the boiling of a liquid on cylindrical and planar heaters in a weak gravitational field and on a cylindrical heater under terrestrial conditions.

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Kirichenko, Y.A., Chernyakov, P.S. The lower limit to the first critical heat flux in weak gravitational fields. J Appl Mech Tech Phys 9, 316–317 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00916799

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