Two phase boundary layers in laminar film boiling

1985 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Nakayama ◽  
H. Koyama
Keyword(s):  
Phase Boundary ◽  
Boundary Layers ◽  
Film Boiling ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Laminar Film

Two-Phase Boundary Layer Treatment for Subcooled Free-Convection Film Boiling Around a Body of Arbitrary Shape in a Porous Medium

1987 ◽  
Vol 109 (4) ◽  
pp. 997-1002 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Nakayama ◽  
H. Koyama ◽  
F. Kuwahara
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Porous Medium ◽  
Free Convection ◽  
Phase Boundary ◽  
Flat Plate ◽  
Arbitrary Shape ◽  
Film Boiling ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
The One ◽  
Axisymmetric Bodies

The two-phase boundary layer theory was adopted to investigate subcooled free-convection film boiling over a body of arbitrary shape embedded in a porous medium. A general similarity variable which accounts for the geometric effect on the boundary layer length scale was introduced to treat the problem once for all possible two-dimensional and axisymmetric bodies. By virtue of this generalized transformation, the set of governing equations and boundary conditions for an arbitrary shape reduces into the one for a vertical flat plate already solved by Cheng and Verma. Thus, the numerical values furnished for a flat plate may readily be tranlsated for any particular body configuration of concern. Furthermore, an explicit Nusselt number expression in terms of the parameters associated with the degrees of subcooling and superheating has been established upon considering physical limiting conditions.

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