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Cooling system modelling for liquid rocket engines.
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Add nucleate boiling correlations #35

Open dug20 opened 3 years ago

dug20 commented 3 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleate_boiling#Boiling_heat_transfer_correlations

The coolant-side model we currently use assumes free convection, which is not true in a lot of cases where the wall temperature is above the boiling point of the coolant. There are some correlations to roughly model nucleate boiling, given in the Wikipedia article above.