Experimental investigations have been conducted for quenching of a hot rotating cylinder with initial temperature of about 500-600 degrees C by a subcooled planar water jet. An original experimental device allowing the estimation of the local boiling curves in the case of a static surface and of a moving surface has been designed. Heat fluxes were measured on both side of the axis of the jet until a reduced distance x/l of 18, in a range of subcooling from 10 to 83 K, for a jet velocity from 0.8 to 1.2 m/s and for a velocity flow-surface ratio (u(s)/u(j)) from 0.5 to 1.25. In the case of static surface, the measurements confirmed the existence of a "shoulder of flux" in the stagnation zone of the jet. In the case of a moving surface, the maximum of heat transfer (for a given regime) is moving during the cooling time from downstream (film boiling regime) to upstream (forced convection). (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.