Experimental investigation of film boiling on spheres using high-speed video

¹ Institute of High Temperature RAS, Russia, Moscow
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² Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Russia, Moscow
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Abstract

The experimental investigation of saturated Freon-113 film boiling on spheres with different diameters at atmospheric pressure under conditions of free convection is executed. It was found that with increasing diameter of the sphere and the temperature difference is changing the wave motion of the vapor film with two-dimensional to three-dimensional mode. Also, found that in a range of regime parameters at which observed a three-dimensional interface motion, the destruction method of two-dimensional wave is similar to a series of three or more waves. I.e. was some system memory. When the temperature difference close to critical after the passage of a wave are possible the local contacts of liquid with a heated surface of the sphere. However, these contacts do not lead to degradation of the wave motion of the interface, and the film boiling crisis of saturated Freon-113 occurs smoothly in contrast to the crisis at boiling of saturated and subcooled water.