Heat transfer crisis on sintered porous surfaces – experimental investigations

There were presented the results of theoretical analysis of boiling heat transfer on heating surfaces covered with thin-layered capillary porous structures. The paper discussed the results of experimental investigations into intralayer boiling crisis and accompanying phenomena. It was observed that the structural parameters of the porous covering affected the course of the process. Hysteresis phenomenon manifested itself when the heat flux initiating intralayer heat crisis was reached. The crisis mechanism hypotheses, the description of which was available in literature, were discussed.