Boiling, Condensation, and Gas-Liquid Flow

• Introduction; Two-phase flow patterns and flow pattern maps; Bubbly and plug flow; Annular flow; Homogeneous flow; Pressure drop in two-phase flow - overall methods for separated flow; Drift flux model; Critical two-phase flow; Detailed phenomena in annular flow: Wave behaviour, deposition and entrainment; Annular flow models; Flooding in two-phase flow; Instabilities in two-phase flow; Two-phase flow in pipe fittings; Boiling: Introduction and pool boiling; Critical heat flux in pool boiling; Flow boiling: Onset of nucleation and heat transfer; Critical heat flux in flow boiling; Mixture effects in boiling; Calculation of boiling heat transfer coefficients and critical heat flux using an annular flow model; Post-burnout heat transfer; Rewetting of hot surfaces; Condensation; Process industry reboilers; Condensers; Practical calculation methods; Questions; Appendices; Index.

'The 25 chapters cover a very wide variety of topics so that, together with its extensive bibliography, the book provides a useful introduction to these very real problems in industrial heat transfer.' Contemporary Physics