ABSTRACT

This work is an attempt to experimentally delineate between the contributions of convection and boiling to saturated convective flow boiling. This was accomplished by measuring heat transfer coefficients for two-phase convection with gas-liquid flow (no boiling) and two-phase saturated boiling with superheated wall. Results indicate that two-phase flow enhances convective heat transfer (beyond that for liquid phase convection) and suppresses the contribution of nucleate boiling (below that for comparable pool boiling).