An Improved Heat Flux Partitioning Model of Nucleate Boiling Under Saturated Pool Boiling Condition

Abstract

An improved heat flux partitioning model of pool boiling is proposed in this study to predict the material-conjugated pool boiling curve. The fundamental rationale behind the improved model is that heat convection is only governed by far-field mechanisms while heat quenching and evaporation are partially subjected to near-field material-dependent mechanisms. The quenching heat flux is derived dependently on thermal-effusivities of solid and liquid, respectively, based on the transient heat conduction analyses. The evaporative heat flux correlates the material-dependent bubble dynamics parameters including bubble departure frequency and nucleation site density together to yield a new analytical form and support the theoretical reflections of material-conjugated boiling behaviors. The proposed model can approximately capture the material-related impacts on boiling heat transfer coefficients and simulate pool boiling curves validated by the use of experimental data.