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Nucleate Pool Boiling

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The first documented mention of superheated liquid occurred in 1777 when the London Royal Society issued a recommendation to place a thermometer bulb not in boiling water itself, but rather in its vapors.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    In a more rigorous form this equation is known as the “thermal equation of state”.

  2. 2.

    In Fig. 12.2c this film is depicted as a blackened strip.

Abbreviations

ATHTC:

Averaged true heat transfer coefficient

EHTC:

Experimental heat transfer coefficient

HTC:

Heat transfer coefficient

THTC:

True heat transfer coefficient

b :

capillary constant

c p :

Isobaric heat capacity

Fo:

Fourier number

h :

Heat transfer coefficient (HTC)

h fg :

Heat of phase transition

h e :

Experimental heat transfer coefficient (EHTC)

K :

Curvature

k :

Thermal conductivity

\(m\,\) :

Growth modulus

n F :

Nucleation site density

\(p\) :

Pressure

\(R\) :

Bubble radius

\(q\) :

Heat flux

\(T\) :

Temperature

\(t\) :

Time

α :

Thermal diffusivity

δ :

Thickness

ε :

Conjugation parameter

ρ :

Density

v :

Kinematic viscosity

ϑ :

Temperature difference

\(\hat{\vartheta }\) :

Oscillating temperature

σ :

Surface tension

s :

Saturation state

spin:

State at spinodal

cr:

State at critical point

v:

Vapor

w :

State at wall

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Zudin, Y.B. (2021). Nucleate Pool Boiling. In: Non-equilibrium Evaporation and Condensation Processes. Mathematical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67553-0_12

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