| Abstract: | An experiment on pool boiling in methanol was performed for a case in which the boiling space was controlled by an interference plate with many holes. The narrow space, 0.12 mm in thickness, between the heat transfer surface and the interference plate was hermetically sealed at the perimeter. Therefore, the vapor and liquid were only exchanged through the holes in the interference plate. The degree of superheat at the onset of boiling was 0.7 K without overshoot at 10‐mm plate thickness, 1‐mm hole diameter, and 3.85‐mm hole pitch. The critical heat flux obtained was the same value without the interference plate mentioned above. The interference plate disturbed free convection and a superheat layer was provided under small heat flux on the heat transfer surface. The critical bubble diameter for the onset of boiling was decreased as the temperature of the superheat layer was increased. Thus, the degree of superheat at the onset of boiling was decreased. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Heat Trans Asian Res, 33(7): 462–471, 2004; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/htj.20028 |
