A unifying criterion of the boiling crisis
Abstract We reveal and justify, both theoretically and experimentally, the existence of a unifying criterion of the boiling crisis. This criterion emerges from an instability in the near-wall interactions of bubbles, which can be described as a percolation process driven by three fundamental boiling...
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| author | Limiao Zhang Chi Wang Guanyu Su Artyom Kossolapov Gustavo Matana Aguiar Jee Hyun Seong Florian Chavagnat Bren Phillips Md Mahamudur Rahman Matteo Bucci |
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| description | Abstract We reveal and justify, both theoretically and experimentally, the existence of a unifying criterion of the boiling crisis. This criterion emerges from an instability in the near-wall interactions of bubbles, which can be described as a percolation process driven by three fundamental boiling parameters: nucleation site density, average bubble footprint radius and product of average bubble growth time and detachment frequency. Our analysis suggests that the boiling crisis occurs on a well-defined critical surface in the multidimensional space of these parameters. Our experiments confirm the existence of this unifying criterion for a wide variety of boiling surface geometries and textures, two boiling regimes (pool and flow boiling) and two fluids (water and liquid nitrogen). This criterion constitutes a simple mechanistic rule to predict the boiling crisis, also providing a guiding principle for designing boiling surfaces that would maximize the nucleate boiling performance. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2e7ac4b9b3c147659236d209b76716c02023-04-23T11:21:53ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232023-04-0114111610.1038/s41467-023-37899-7A unifying criterion of the boiling crisisLimiao Zhang0Chi Wang1Guanyu Su2Artyom Kossolapov3Gustavo Matana Aguiar4Jee Hyun Seong5Florian Chavagnat6Bren Phillips7Md Mahamudur Rahman8Matteo Bucci9Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDepartment of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDepartment of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDepartment of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDepartment of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDepartment of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDepartment of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDepartment of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDepartment of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDepartment of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAbstract We reveal and justify, both theoretically and experimentally, the existence of a unifying criterion of the boiling crisis. This criterion emerges from an instability in the near-wall interactions of bubbles, which can be described as a percolation process driven by three fundamental boiling parameters: nucleation site density, average bubble footprint radius and product of average bubble growth time and detachment frequency. Our analysis suggests that the boiling crisis occurs on a well-defined critical surface in the multidimensional space of these parameters. Our experiments confirm the existence of this unifying criterion for a wide variety of boiling surface geometries and textures, two boiling regimes (pool and flow boiling) and two fluids (water and liquid nitrogen). This criterion constitutes a simple mechanistic rule to predict the boiling crisis, also providing a guiding principle for designing boiling surfaces that would maximize the nucleate boiling performance.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37899-7 |
| spellingShingle | Limiao Zhang Chi Wang Guanyu Su Artyom Kossolapov Gustavo Matana Aguiar Jee Hyun Seong Florian Chavagnat Bren Phillips Md Mahamudur Rahman Matteo Bucci A unifying criterion of the boiling crisis Nature Communications |
| title | A unifying criterion of the boiling crisis |
| title_full | A unifying criterion of the boiling crisis |
| title_fullStr | A unifying criterion of the boiling crisis |
| title_full_unstemmed | A unifying criterion of the boiling crisis |
| title_short | A unifying criterion of the boiling crisis |
| title_sort | unifying criterion of the boiling crisis |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37899-7 |
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