Transient and quasi-steady state heat transfers were measured in vertical small tube with exponentially increasing heat inputs.The flow velocities,the inlet liquid temperatures and the inlet pressure were ranging from 1.0 to 7.5 m/s,295 to 355 K and 645 to 858 kPa.The forced convection water flow test loop made of stainless steel consists of a multistage canned-type circulation pump with high pump head,a heater,a cooler,a flow meter,a pressurizer,an expansion tank,an ion exchanger and a test tube.The heat generation rate was raised through an exponential function,Qoexp (t /τ),where Qo is an initial heat generation rate, t represents time and τ is e-folding time.It was obtained that the heat transfer coefficient increased with the decreasing of inner diameter of test tube.The heat transfer coefficient also increased with decreasing of the e-folding time of the heat generation rate at a flow velocity.In spite of the e-folding time,the heat transfer coefficient increased with an increase in flow velocity.Moreover, the Nusselt number under the transient condition was affected by the Fourier number and the Reynolds number.