INTERPHASE FLUCTUATION PROPAGATION AND SUPERPOSITION MODEL FOR BOILING NUCLEATION

Although boiling has been the subject of numerous investigations, ther e are still a number of fundamental nucleation phenomena needed to be explained consistently. A new proposed physical model termed the 'inte rphase fluctuation propagation and superposition model', was used to s uccessfully explain the physical nature of heterogeneous nucleation pr ocesses. the new concepts of 'evaporating space' and 'fictitious boili ng' were quoted here to explain nucleate boiling at the microscale lev el and resulted in a significantly enhanced understanding and a much c learer representation of the physical significance of the fundamental parameters that govern nucleate boiling. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd . All rights reserved.