“…Studies generally confirm significant differences between capillaries and large channels, with respect to flow patterns (Suo & Griffith, 1964;Oya, 1971;Barnea et al, 1983;Damianides & Westwater, 1988;Fukano & Kariyasaki, 1993;Barajas & Panton, 1993;Triplett et al, 1999a;Bi et al, 1999), pressure drop (Inasaka et al, 1989;Lin et al, 1991;Fukano & Kariyasaki, 1993;Fouran & Bories, 1995;Triplett et al, 1999b), and boiling heat transfer and critical heat flux (Inasaka et al, 1989;Peng & Wang, 1993). Criteria for determining the maximum channel diameter for channel orientationindependent (or, equivalently, gravity-independent) flow have also been proposed by Suo & Griffith (1964), Brauner (1990), Brauner & Moalem-Maron (1990, 1992, and Fukano & Kariyasaki (1993). found that the gravity-independent criterion developed on the base of the experiments of two-phase gas-liquid flows at different gravity conditions aboard the Russian Mir Space Station is the same as that proposed by Brauner & Moalem-Maron (1992), namely the Bond number is no more than a critical value of an order of 1.…”