Microgravity Fluid Physics & Heat Transfer

ISBN Print: 978-1-56700-147-1

ISBN Online: 978-1-56700-444-1

POOL BOILING IN MICROGRAVITY

DOI: 10.1615/MFPHT-1999.140
pages 114-125

Abstract

Pool boiling in microgravity permits the study of heat transfer, and the related bubble dynamics not influenced by external forces. Conclusions from the experiments performed during the past two decades using various facilities for gravity compensation are discussed. The results are in contradiction to the prediction of most heat transfer correlations.