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HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER
Volume 44, Issue 12, Pages 1447-1453Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00231-008-0384-6
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An experimental study was carried out to investigate the effects of heat transfer surface orientation and the solid-liquid contact angle on the boiling heat transfer and critical heat flux (CHF) in water pool boiling using a smooth heat-transfer surface under atmospheric pressure. The orientation angle was ranged from 0 degrees (up-facing horizontal position) to 180 degrees (down-facing horizontal position) with a pace of 45 degrees. The three kinds of heat transfer surfaces having different solid-liquid contact angles were the normal surface with a contact angle of 55 degrees, the hydrophilic surface with a contact angle of 30 degrees and the superhydrophilic surface with a contact angle of 0 degrees. The experimental results indicate that orientation and contact angle have complex, coupling effects on heat transfer and CHF. A predicting correlation for the CHF which takes the effects of both orientation and contact angle into account is established. The predicting correlation agrees reasonably well with the experimental data.
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