AfractalanalysisofsubcooledflowboilingheattransferBoqiXiaoa,b,BomingYua,*aDepartmentofPhysics,HuazhongUniversityofScienceandTechnology,1037LuoyuRoad,Wuhan430074,Hubei,PRChinabDepartmentofPhysicsandElectromechanicalEngineering,SanmingUniversity,25JingdongRoad,Sanming365004,Fujian,PRChinaReceived18July2006;receivedinrevisedform8April2007AbstractAfractalmodelforthesubcooledflowboilingheattransferisproposedinthispaper
Theanalyticalexpressionsforthesubcooledflowboilingheattransferarederivedbasedonthefractaldistributionofnucleationsitesonboilingsurfaces
Theproposedfractalmodelforthesubcooledflowboilingheattransferisfoundtobeafunctionofwallsuperheat,liquidsubcooling,bulkvelocityoffluid(orReynoldsnumber),fractaldimension,theminimumandmaximumactivecavitysize,thecontactangleandphysicalpropertiesoffl