Discussion: 'Commentary on Correlations for Convective Vaporization in Tubes,' (Webb, Ralph. L., 2003, ASME J. of Heat Transfer, 125(1), pp. 184-185.)

摘要

This discussion responds to the recently published commentary presented by Webb in this journal. Several simple, but important misrepresentations were made in his commentary about the flow pattern/flow structure flow boiling model of Kattan et al. [2-4] and all four other prediction methods he discusses, creating confusion in the state-of-the-art and perpetuating his misconceptions about these flow boiling models. In fact, it is quite surprising that his comments about the paper by Kattan et al. [2-4] survived a peer review, given that they received the ASME 1998 Heat Transfer Division Best Paper Award for their work. While it is essential to expose new methods to critical and objective examination, on the other hand purposely incorrect or uninformed comments are not appropriate and hence that is what I would like to set straight below for the heat transfer community.