Study of heat transfer during evaporation and boiling of thin horizontal layers

horizontal layers of liquid on a modified surface

natural convection, single-phase liquid forced convection, and boiling

Kutateladze for CHF
1952
The Rohsenow pool-boiling correlation

nitrogen in the film
1977
Photographs of the structures observed in a

thin oil layer: (1) intersection of filaments in the area of convection cells where funnels are formed (the funnels are shown by arrows); (2) simultaneous formation of two funnels in the same place, 1 - cm scale; (3) funnels on the surface of horizontal layer of mineral vacuum oil spaced from each other at a distance of about critical wavelength of Rayleigh–Taylor instability, 1 - cm scale; (4) crater in the oil layer, marked by a cross, 1 - cm scale

1989

2013

The dynamics of the «crater» formation

n-dodecane layer height h = 2,5 mm:
1 – bubbles,

2 – «craters», 3 – «funnels», 4 – «funnels» + «craters», 5 – convection, 6 – the Dependence of Kutateladze, 7 – calculation by Yagov formula, 8 – calculation by Landau formula

2016

«Funnels» + «craters»

The crisis of evaporation

adapted from Im et. al. (2012)
2018