Boiling Heat Transfer and Boiling Equipment
Invited Lecturers
- Gian Piero Celata (ENEA, S. Maria di Galeria (Roma), Italy)
- 7 lectures on: Flow Boiling. Generalities on flow boiling, flow regimes, void fraction, two-phase frictional pressure drop, subcooled and saturated flow boiling in circular tubes, critical heat flux in subcooled flow boiling, critical heat flux in saturated flow boiling, predictions methods for the subcooled flow boiling CHF: correlations and mechanistic models, predictions methods for the saturated flow boiling CHF: correlations and mechanistic models, post-CHF heat transfer, augmentation of CHF and post-CHF heat transfer, boiling of mixtures.
- Paolo Di Marco (Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy)
- 7 lectures on: Pool Boiling. Generalities on pool boiling, effects of systems variables on nucleate boiling, nucleation characteristics in pool boiling, bubble dynamics and heat transfer, nucleation site density, heat transfer in nucleate boiling, critical heat flux in subcooled and saturated pool boiling, influence of the electric field, influence of microgravity on pool boiling, film and transition boiling.
- Horst-Michael Prasser (Foschungzentrum Rossendorf e.V, Dresden, Germany)
- 6 lectures on: Diagnostics of the Interfacial Area. Methods for measuring void fractions, bubble sizes, bubble velocities, topology and area of the gas-liquid interface. Fast flow visualization. In particular: local impedance probes for high pressure and temperature, advanced probes with integrated thermocouple, wire-mesh sensors, time resolving gamma and X-ray tomography, optical sensors and optical tomography. Application examples.
- Peter Stephan (Darmstadt University of Techn., Darmstadt, Germany)
- 6 lectures on: Microscale Phenomena in Boiling. Experimental studies aiming at evaluation of microscale phenomena and analysis of their impact on boiling heat transfer modelling. Boiling in microstructured surfaces: increasing of the evaporation rate and prevention for dryout, thermocapillary instability, applications of microstructured surfaces.
- John R. Thome (Lab. of Heat & Mass Transfer, Lausanne, Switzerland)
- 6 lectures on: Flow Boiling of Mixtures and in Microchannels. Flow patterns map in horizontal and vertical tubes, heat transfer models based on flow patterns, pool boiling in liquid mixtures, forced convective boiling in liquid mixtures, critical heat transfer in liquid mixtures, models for heat transfer in pool and flow boiling of mixtures, flow boiling in microchannels, differences between microscale and macroscale in flow boiling in tubes, flow patterns in microchannels, modelling of flow boiling in microchannels.
- Vishwas Wadekar (Hyprotech UK Ltd., Harwell, Oxfordshire, Great Britain)
- 6 lectures on: Enhancement of Boiling Heat Transfer and Boiling Heat Exchangers. Passive and active methods, flow boiling in advanced geometries, flow boiling in compact heat exchangers: evaluation of the boiling heat transfer performances of different compact heat exchangers, flow boiling in multichannels, flow boiling instabilities, external flow boiling in tube bundles.