The deionized water was used as the experimental medium
and the fully developed boiling (FDB) starting point of the three-sided heated narrow rectangular channel with a section of 3 mm×43 mm was studied. The influence of some thermal parameters on FDB starting point is analyzed. Empirical correlation of FDB's heat flux suitable for the three-side heating narrow rectangular channel was obtained by nonlinear regression analysis for experimental data of FDB starting location. The results show that the new empirical correlation can accurately predict heat flux of FDB in the three-side heating narrow rectangular channel. The relative error of predicting value is 15.17%. Besides
the simulation results of new empirical correlation are compared with some existing experimental data. The experimental data obtained from one-side heating narrow rectangular channel are in fairly agreement with new empirical correlation. This shows that new empirical correlation is well suited for one-side heating narrow rectangular channel.