Heat Flow Rates in Saturated Nucleate Pool Boiling-A Wide-Ranging Examination Using Reduced Properties

The chapter presents the experimental data with no particular theory, to search for significant effects of physical parameters. The present method gains power, scope, and speed by avoiding redundancies among the fluid properties, which otherwise lead to intolerable and unhelpful complexity of analysis and to a confusing multiplicity of correlations that look different but are often numerically rather similar. The chapter examines existing correlations, finding a reason for the fact that they are often numerically similar, despite using very different properties that leads to the improved method of analysis. It has always required a major effort of data reduction to compare experimental data with correlations that involve many properties. Comparisons between competing claims of different correlations are confused by uncertainties and indeed errors in tabulated property values, especially for uncommon fluids or old tabulations. These problems are greatly reduced by using a simpler correlation for example, in terms of reduced pressure, where the only tabulated property required for each fluid is critical pressure. The chapter concludes that taking advantage of that simplicity, correlations of a more subtle type can be considered without undue labor in data reduction.