Planar simulation of bubble growth in film boiling in near-critical water using a variant of the VOF method

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 329-338

  Agarwal, D K ^a   Welch, S W J ^b   Biswas, G ^a   Durst, F ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b The University of Colorado Denver   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boiling; Bubble growth; Computational; Heat transfer; Mass Transfer; Surface tension

Indexed keywords

BOILING LIQUIDS; BUBBLE FORMATION; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; SPECIFIC HEAT; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

FILM BOILING; PLANAR SIMULATIONS;

HEAT TRANSFER;

BOILING; BUBBLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FILM; HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 3242715748     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1737779     Document Type: Article

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