Film Boiling Destabilization From Hydrodynamic And Thermodynamic Considerations

Author

Fred Samuel Gunnerson

Publication Date

3-28-1979

Abstract

An analytical method is presented for predicting, from first principles, the minimum heater temperature and heat transfer rate at the onset of film boiling for spherical and ·flat plate heaters in saturated and subcooled liquids. Within the analysis, consideration is given to the two types of film boiling, they are:

(1) Pool film boiling where the entire heater is submerged within the boiling liquid, and

(2) Leidenfrost film boiling where a droplet of liquid boil s above a horizontal plate heater.

Document Type

Dissertation

Language

English

Degree Name

Nuclear Engineering

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Department Name

Nuclear Engineering

First Committee Member (Chair)

August William Cronenberg

Second Committee Member

Glenn Alan Whan

Third Committee Member

Lloyd A. Nelson

Fourth Committee Member

H. S. Levine

Fifth Committee Member

Donald Reed McLaughlin

Comments

United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Division of Fast Reactor Safety and Associated Western Universities financial assistance

Recommended Citation

Gunnerson, Fred Samuel. "Film Boiling Destabilization From Hydrodynamic And Thermodynamic Considerations." (1979). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/ne_etds/143