Affiliation:
1. National Research Centre “Kurchatov Institute”
Abstract
The vapor bubble growth problem in a superheated liquid is considered. The Stefan number in the metastable region us evaluated. The asymptotics of the “thermal explosion” is investigated in the framework of the energy thermal scheme. The “pressure blocking” effect is show to occur if the Stefan numbers exceeds 1. An analytical solution is obtained for the bubble growth law in a liquid with energy spinodal temperature. A numerical study of butane bubble growth in the near-spinodal region is performed. A comparison of the solution with the experimental results on the boiling of a butane drop is given.
Publisher
The Russian Academy of Sciences