Abstract
The discussion initiated by a brief message by Prof. E.D. Fedorovich allows for briefly recalling the evolution of ideas about the nature of the boiling crisis. Although the hydrodynamic model of the crisis, due to its clarity and simplicity of the calculation formula that follows from it, remains the most popular among specialists, experiments of the last 10–15 years confirm that this model objectively has no relation to nucleate boiling of a liquid. In most modern studies, an irreversible increase in the area of dry spots on the heating surface is taken as the cause of the crisis. A quantitative model based on this hypothesis was proposed by the author in 1988. However, in the absence of a rigorous mathematical description of the nucleate boiling process, any model in this area is approximate and long life is guaranteed for discussions about the mechanisms of the boiling crisis.
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Yagov, V.V. On the Mechanisms of Boiling Crisis (Comment on the Article of E.D. Fedorovich “On the Expediency of Developing a Two-Stage Model of Boiling Crisis of a Liquid Wetting a Heating Surface”). Therm. Eng. 67, 847–850 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0040601520110117
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