Abstract. The paper presents the generalized correlations for the heat transfer coefficients for natural convection boiling of microfinned surfaces based on the experimental measurements.
IntroductionThe microfinned surface elements on the flat horizontal plate produced by the deforming cutting method is one of the most effective ways of heat transfer intensification for natural convection boiling [1,2]. The deforming cutting method is a simple and no waste technology.It was revealed that for the two-and the three-dimensional microstructured surfaces for the element height of 90-750 µm, element thickness of 25-320 µm, and longitudinal gap width of 40-500 µm the heat transfer coefficients is growing up to a factor of 9, and the critical heat flux magnitudes are rising up to a factorof 4.1. The maximal values of the heat transfer intensification were observed for the three-dimensional surface elements. The results of studying the heat transfer enhancement for these surfaces for the boiling of the distilled water, 98%ethanol, and 60% water solution of the glycerin are presented in [3,4].