Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 184503 (2006) [4 pages]

Experimental Evidence of the Vapor Recoil Mechanism in the Boiling Crisis

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V. S. Nikolayev^1,2,*, D. Chatain¹, Y. Garrabos³, and D. Beysens^1,2
¹ESEME, Service des Basses Températures, DRFMC/DSM/CEA-Grenoble, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
²CEA-ESEME, ESPCI-PMMH-P6-P7, 10, rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris Cedex 5, France
³CNRS-ESEME, Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux, Université de Bordeaux I, Avenue du Dr. Schweitzer, 33608 Pessac Cedex, France

Received 6 June 2006; published 2 November 2006

Boiling crisis experiments are carried out in the vicinity of the liquid-gas critical point of H₂. A magnetic gravity compensation setup is used to enable nucleate boiling at near critical pressure. The measurements of the critical heat flux that defines the threshold for the boiling crisis are carried out as a function of the distance from the critical point. The obtained power law behavior and the boiling crisis dynamics agree with the predictions of the vapor recoil mechanism and disagree with the classical vapor column mechanism.

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.184503

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.184503

PACS:

47.55.dp, 47.55.dd, 47.55.np, 68.35.Rh

^*URL: http://www.pmmh.espci.fr/~vnikol

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 184503 (2006) [4 pages]

Experimental Evidence of the Vapor Recoil Mechanism in the Boiling Crisis