Ultrahigh CHF Prediction for Subcooled Flow Boiling Based on Homogenous Nucleation Mechanism

Homogeneous nucleation, although being discounted as a mechanism for vapor formation for water in most conditions, is found to possibly occur under some extreme conditions in subcooled flow boiling. Under the conditions, vapor bubbles of molecular dimensions generated in the superheated liquid adjacent to channel wall from homogeneous nucleation due to the local temperature exceeds homogeneous nucleation temperature. The condition is called in this paper as homogeneous nucleation governed condition. Under the condition, conventional flow pattern for subcooled flow boiling, which is characterized by the existence of Net Vapor Generation (NVG) point and the followed bubble detachment, movement and coalescence processes, cannot be established. Critical heat flux (CHF) triggering mechanism so far proposed, which employs a premise assumption that the conventional flow pattern has been established, such as liquid sublayer dryout model, is no more appropriate for the homogeneous nucleation governed condition. In this paper, first, the existence of the homogeneous nucleation governed condition is indicated

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