A New Correlation of Pool-Boiling Data Including the Effect of Heating Surface Characteristics

The standard approach which relates heat transfer in nucleate boiling to heat transfer to the superheated layer averaged over the time between two successive departures of a bubble from a given site is extended in order to relate the heat flux to the wall superheat through the heating surface characteristic. It was found that the q/A versus ΔT relation depends on the cavity size distribution over the surface. For a known distribution of cavity size, the q/A versus ΔT relation may be predicted, or for unknown characteristics of the boiling surface it is sufficient to have boiling data at one pressure in order to predict the q/A versus ΔT relation of other pressure levels for the same surface and the same liquid. The latter was tried on a wide range of experimental data including water and three organic liquids with good results.