Pool boiling heat transfer in microgravity (Experiments with CFC-113 and water utilizing a drop shaft facility)

JSME International Journal, Series B: Fluids and Thermal Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 798-807

  Oka, Toshiharu ^a   Abe, Yoshiyuki ^b   Mori, Yasuhiko H ^c   Nagashima, Akira ^c  

^a IHI CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b ELECTROTECHNICAL LABORATORY   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Boiling; Critical Heat Flux; Heat Transfer; Microgravity; Pool Boiling; Space Engineering

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; BUBBLE FORMATION; GLASS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); STAINLESS STEEL; SURFACE TENSION;

CRITICAL HEAT FLUX (CHF); HEAT OF VAPORIZATION;

BOILING LIQUIDS;

BOILING; BUBBLES; HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 0030291889     PISSN: 13408054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1299/jsmeb.39.798     Document Type: Article

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