Boiling, pool with liquid metals

Nucleate Pool Boiling with Liquid Metals 71... 

Effects of experimental parameters of pool boiling crisis with liquid metals... 

It should be noted that without experimental data on the subcooled pool boiling crisis in liquid metals, the above equation cannot be verified. Another mechanism for estimating the subcooling contribution to the CHF was used for boiling with ordinary liquids (i.e., a conduction mechanism). The two mechanisms may operate simultaneously, along with the hydrodynamics and conduction-convection mechanisms (Dwyer, 1976). 

Pure mercury does not easily wet steels and certain other structural alloys, thus it is an unwetted case. It causes the direct transition from liquid phase to film boiling heat transfer. The phenomenon has also, on occasion, been observed with alkali metals (Noyes and Lurie, 1966 Avksentyuk and Mamontova, 1973). Figure 2.42 shows experimental heat transfer results for pool boiling of pure mercury on... 

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