Abstract
Critical Heat Flux (CHF) in a non-uniformly heated tube is a very important designing factor of actual boiling two-phase flow equipments. In this series of studies, the CHF in a non-uniformly heated tube was discussed by using the re-distribution of a liquid film caused by the wave interaction. In the present investigation, in order to estimate the influence of the entrainment of droplet under the high heat flux condition on the re-distribution of liquid film, the CHF experiment was conducted. The experimental apparatus was a similar to the forced convective boiling system described in the previous paper, i.e. the eccentric tube with 20 mm I.D., 24 mm O.D., but heated length was just only 450 mm to keep the high heat flux condition. The experimental result expressed the influence of the magnitude of the heat flux as the increasing in the entrainment. The CHF was occurred at the high quality condition, i.e. liquid film dryout and at the low quality condition, i.e. departure from nucleate boiling (DNB), respectively. This obtained CHF was evaluated by using the film flow model, and the empirical correlation of the spreading coefficient of liquid film re-distribution was proposed.
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