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Pool-Boiling Heat-Transfer Enhancement on Cylindrical Surfaces with Hybrid Wettable Patterns
Published on: April 10, 2017
Two models for the dynamics of boiling in a short capillary tube
A. Cordonet1, R. Lima, E. Ramos
1Centre de Physique Theorique, CNRS, Luminy, case 907, Marseille cedex 09, FranceIICO, UASLP, San Luis Potosi, 78210 Mexico.
Abstract:
We investigate the dynamical origin of the statistical properties of boiling in a short capillary tube. Two different models are proposed (Markov model and rotational model). We show that the behavior of each model may be related to different properties of the physical phenomenon. We conclude with a suggestion of a new experimental measurement which can help to adjust several aspects of the models. (c) 2001 American Institute of Physics.
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