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Vapour-bubble growth in a superheated liquid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2006

Andrea Prosperetti  and
Milton S. Plesset
Andrea Prosperetti
Affiliation:
Istituto di Fisica, Università degli Studi, Milan, Italy
Milton S. Plesset
Affiliation:
Engineering Science Department, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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Abstract

It is shown that the approximation of a thin thermal boundary layer gives an accurate description of the growth of spherical vapour bubbles in a superheated liquid except for very small superheats. If the further approximations of a linear variation of vapour pressure with temperature and of constant physical properties are made, then scaled variables can be introduced which describe the growth under any conditions. This scaled description is not valid during the early, surface-tension dominated, portion of the growth. The rate of bubble growth for large superheats is somewhat overestimated in the intermediate stage in which both inertial and thermal effects play a role. This overestimate does not lead to a serious error in the radius-time behaviour for ranges of practical interest. The asymptotic, or thermally controlled, stage of growth is accurately described by the scaled formulation.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 85 , Issue 2 , 21 March 1978 , pp. 349 - 368
Copyright
© 1978 Cambridge University Press

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