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Heat Transfer Research

ISSN for PRINT: 1064-2285

Institutional price:	$2485.00
Issues per year:	8

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2001, Volume32

174 pages

Issue price - $1011.00

Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of the Process of Initiation of Vapor Explosion on a Solid Hemispherical Model. Part 1. Experiment

V. V. Glazkov
Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Technical University), Russia

V. G. Zhilin
Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Yu. P. Ivochkin
Moscow Power Engineering Institute; and Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

V. S. Igumnov
Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

O. A. Sinkevich
Science Technological Center of Associated Institute for High Temperature, Russian Academy of Science and Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Technical University), Russia

V. R. Tsoi
Elektrogorsk Scientific-Research Center, Elektrogorsk, Russia

V. G. Shvets
Elektrogorsk Scientific-Research Center, Elektrogorsk, Russia

ABSTRACT

On a small-scale setup, we carried out investigations of the process of interaction of a heated solid hemispherical surface with water. We studied the processes of the development of instability and rupture of a vapor layer. As a measuring system we used fiber-optical transducers of pressure and of vapor-film thickness. Video filming of the process of the destabilization and rupture of a vapor film was made with subsequent computer processing of pictures.