A unifying criterion of the boiling crisis

Limiao Zhang, Chi Wang, Guanyu Su, Artyom Kossolapov, Gustavo Matana Aguiar, Jee Hyun Seong, Florian Chavagnat, Bren Phillips, Md Mahamudur Rahman and Matteo Bucci ()
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Limiao Zhang: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chi Wang: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Guanyu Su: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Artyom Kossolapov: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gustavo Matana Aguiar: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jee Hyun Seong: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Florian Chavagnat: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bren Phillips: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Md Mahamudur Rahman: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Matteo Bucci: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nature Communications, 2023, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-16

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2023
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