The effect of laminar movement and heat transfer on the occurrence and development of stainless steel pitting is studied, using a device based on a system of two disks, one of which (working heat transfer specimen) is stationary, and rotation of a second disk providing solution movement. It is shown that the effect of heat transfer between metal and solution on pitting formation depends on metal temperature and heat flux direction. With a metal temperature of 50°C under heat transfer conditions from metal to solution with an increase in temperature drop pitting corrosion potential increases, and under conditions of heat transfer from solution to metal it decreases. Presence of a heat flux in any direction through a metal-solution phase boundary facilitates the development of pits, but makes their repassivation difficult, and thereby deepens corrosion.Local corrosion is a typical form of heat exchange equipment failure [1], which is connected with structural features of the majority of heat exchangers, and with their operating conditions. Local forms of corrosion of heat-exchange surfaces include pitting, crevice, selective, intercrystalline, and thermogalvanic corrosion, and also corrosion at "hot points" caused by local metal wall heating.Extensive use for cooling of water of different chemical composition (including sea, fresh, and recycled water) facilitates development of pitting corrosion, which is the reason for up to 20% of all cases of breakdown of heat exchangers due to corrosion [2]. However, in spite of the widespread nature of this form of local corrosion, data for the effect of heat transfer conditions on tendency of metals and alloys towards pitting corrosion are limited and often not comparable due to research under insufficiently controlled conditions with respect to hydrodynamics and heat exchange. Nonetheless, from results in [3][4][5][6][7] it is possible to consider it established that heat transfer conditions (metal temperature, temperature drop between metal and solution, magnitude and direction of heat flux) may have a significant effect on the occurrence of pitting corrosion.Pitting corrosion under conditions of movement and heat transfer has been studied using flow-through devices (closed circuits) with vertically arranged heat transfer electrodes in the form of plates [7,8], and also a device with rotating electrodes made in the form of disks [4,6]. Analysis of the structures used has shown [9] that flow-through devices around a test metal surface do not provide controlled conditions with respect to hydrodynamics and heat and mass transfer. Undoubtedly, devices with rotating heat transfer disk electrodes do not have this disadvantage, but within them there is no consideration of one important situation: since the working surface of rotary electrodes faces downwards, the medium within pits having a greater density than the medium with the volume of solution, under the action of gravitational force is displaced from local damage and discarded by centrifugal forces. This changes markedly so...