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... to a boundary heat flux and the dryout induced by the heat flux is of specific interest while considering the decay heating of a nuclear fuel 5 or in the design of heat pipes for thermal radiators 6 7 . Chan and Zhang 7 observed that the existence of heat flux on the wall poses an unsteady state solution...

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