Abstract
A liquid drop immersed into a host liquid can be strongly superheated before nucleation of the first vapour bubble occurs. A millimetre-size water drop indeed survives several minutes at T = 170–190 °C at ambient pressure into sunflower or silicon oil. When nucleation eventually occurs, the drop may boil explosively, as shown in Figure 1 with sunflower oil as the host liquid. In this case the bubble growth is only limited by the diffusion of heat and the whole drop vaporises within milliseconds.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 091102 |
| Pages (from-to) | 091102-1-091102--2 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Physics of fluids |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Keywords
- IR-89961
- METIS-297488
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van Limbeek, M. A. J., Lhuissier, H. E., Prosperetti, A., Sun, C., & Lohse, D. (2013). Explosive boiling? Physics of fluids, 25(9), 091102-1-091102--2. [091102]. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4820014