POOL BOILING HEAT TRANSFER IN MICROGRAVITY: RESULTS FROM THE MICROHEATER ARRAY BOILING EXPERIMENT (BXF-MABE) ON THE ISS

摘要

Relatively little is known about boiling mechanisms in the low gravity environments. Data from long duration, high quality microgravity environments are limited since the experiments are expensive and flight opportunities are rare. Although a few studies have been performed under high quality microgravity environments on board orbital platforms, most low gravity boiling research has been obtained using drop towers, aircraft, and sounding rockets. The relatively large g-jitter and/or the short periods of microgravity duration of these studies have resulted in confusion about the heat transfer mechanisms.