Boiling heat transfer region with independence of the wall temperature

 Extensive measurements of the intensive cooling of hot-rolled wires with temperatures between 1000 ^°C and 1100 ^°C are analysed. The analysis proves the existence of a convection-controlled boiling region, which has been previously observed by few authors in the case of high mass fluxes and high liquid subcooling. This region is characterised by an independence of the heat flux of the surface temperature. The heat flux depends essentially on the Reynolds number, the main influence parameter of the single phase convection, and on the liquid subcooling. Received on 13 September 1999