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Enhancement of Pool Boiling Heat Transfer and Control of Bubble Motion in Microgravity Using Electric Fields (BCOEL).

Author
Robinson, Dale
Published
December 2001.
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1 electronic document
Additional Creators
Grant, Nechelle, Herman, Cila, Iacona, Estelle, Julian, Ed, Nahra, Henry, VanZandt, Dave, Acquaviva, Tom, Taylor, Al, and Coho, Bill
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Summary
The BCOEL project focuses on improving pool boiling heat transfer and bubble control in microgravity by exposing the fluid to electric fields. The electric fields induce a body force that can replace gravity in the low gravity environment, and enhance bubble removal from the heated surface. A better understanding of microgravity effects on boiling with and without electric fields is critical to the proper design of the phase-change-heat-removal equipment for use in spacebased applications. The microgravity experiments will focus on the visualization of bubble formation and shape during boiling. Heat fluxes on the boiling surface will be measured, and, together with the measured driving temperature differences, used to plot boiling curves for different electric field magnitudes. Bubble formation and boiling processes were found to be extremely sensitive to g-jitter. The duration of the experimental run is critical in order to achieve steady state in microgravity experiments. The International Space Station provides conditions suitable for such experiments. The experimental apparatus to be used in the study is described in the paper. The apparatus will be tested in the KC-135 first, and microgravity experiments will be conducted on board of the International Space Station using the Microgravity Science Glovebox as the experimental platform.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
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Document ID: 20020036236.
NASA/TM-2001-211317.
NAS 1.15:211317.
AIAA Paper 2001-5115.
E-13116.
International Space Utilization, 2001; 15-18 Oct. 2001; Cape Canaveral, FL; United States.
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