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Experimental Study of Pool Boiling Critical Heat Flux on Thin Wires under Various Gravities

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The experimental study of pure water pool boiling critical heat flux (CHF) on two platinum wires with 26 mm in length and 30 μm and 50 μm in diameters was conducted to investigate the effect of gravity on pool boiling CHF. The gravity level ranges from 1 to 3.5 g, and the saturation pressure ranges from 0.1 to 0.5 MPa. The hypergravity was generated by a centrifugal machine. The comparison between the experimental data under hypergravity and earth gravity shows that the difference between the pool boiling CHF under earth gravity and hypergravity is not significant in the experimental gravity range, almost within ±15% for gravity levels less than 3.5 g, and that generally the CHF under hypergravity is slightly higher than that under earth gravity. The pool boiling CHF experimental data are also used to assess 21 available correlations proposed for the pool boiling CHF under earth gravity to evaluate their applicability to hypergravity.

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This study is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (51576099, 51576099) and funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Aircraft Environment Control and Life Support, MIIT, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 29 Yudao Street, Nanjing, 210016, China

    Xiande Fang, Ling Zheng, Yan He, Gen Li & Minghua Bi

  2. School of Energy and Power Engineering, Beihang University, Bejing, 100191, China

    Bei Yang & Xi Wang

  3. School of Aircraft Engineering, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang, 330063, China

    Bei Yang

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Fang, X., Zheng, L., He, Y. et al. Experimental Study of Pool Boiling Critical Heat Flux on Thin Wires under Various Gravities. Microgravity Sci. Technol. 31, 339–345 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12217-019-9688-z

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