A new triggering mechanism of the boiling crisis based on the percolation theory and its implication

Boiling is a very effective heat transfer process, used in nuclear reactors and other applications such as high-performance computing cooling, sterilization, water desalination. However, this process is limited by the boiling crisis. The boiling crisis is an instability that causes a sudden transiti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zhang, Limiao
Other Authors: Bucci, Matteo
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/143147