The role of bubble waiting time in steady nucleate boiling

Experimental results previously reported by Ibraham and Judd were examined in order to determine the role of bubble waiting time in steady nucleate bo iling. The analysis identified that the time elapsed between the formation of bubbles at a nucleation site is the time required for the liquid which r eplaced the previous bubble to acquire sufficient energy to sustain the gro wth of the subsequent bubble, and not the time required to Establish the co nditions required to enable the nucleus, which formed at the nucleation sit e, to commence growing into a bubble.