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J. von Hardenberg, T. Kono, D.B.R. Kenning, P.E. McSharry and L.A. Smith (2002) Identification of boiling nucleation sites by non-orthogonal empirical functions (NEF) analysis of thermographic data Proceedings 12th International Heat Transfer Conference, Grenoble, 18-23 August 2002, 3, 377-382.

Abstract

The new method of analysis by non-orthogonal empirical functions (NEFs) is applied to experimental data for the spatio-temporal variations in wall temperature during nucleate boiling. It is shown that the method can successfully identify the positions and patterns of activity at individual members of a large group of nucleation sites. Statistical methods are developed for comparing data of this sort with numerical simulations.