Outline of Boiling Phenomena and Heat Transfer Characteristics

The objective of this book is to collect research works achieved during recent 20 years in the progress of boiling research in Japan. This book is edited for a person who has some experience or basic knowledge on boiling heat transfer. The fundamental outlines of pool nucleate boiling and flow boiling, and also new trend that boiling is considered to be a basic science that can be studied by numerical simulation or from the aspect of microscopic physics are briefly covered.