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Dynamics of transition processes and structure formation in critical heat-mass transfer regimes during liquid boiling and cavitation

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The results of experimental studies concerning the development of critical phenomena and structure formation in the process of boiling in falling films and during liquid cavitation are given. In conditions of stepwise and periodic pulsed surges of a thermal load, the parameters of formed metastable regular structures and critical parameters of heat-releasing surface drying are shown to be determined by the dynamics of moving wetting boundaries in the process of system self-organization. In the case of high-intensity heat fluxes, decomposition of a falling film is determined by propagation regimes of self-maintaining boiling fronts with a complex shape of intermediate structures. The study of ultrasonic cavitation of water, glycerin, and vacuum oil shows that structures of interacting gas-vapor bubbles (having the form of fractal clusters) are formed near the emitter surface. Spatial structures are characterized by a low-frequency divergence of the power spectra and a scale-invariant function of the fluctuation distributions. The experimental results are in good qualitative agreement with the numerical simulations performed within the theory of 1/f fluctuations in the case of nonequilibrium phase transitions in a spatially distributed system.

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  2. Institute of Thermal Physics, Ural Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russia

    V. P. Koverda, V. N. Skokov, A. V. Reshetnikov & A. V. Vinogradov

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Pavlenko, A.N., Koverda, V.P., Skokov, V.N. et al. Dynamics of transition processes and structure formation in critical heat-mass transfer regimes during liquid boiling and cavitation. J. Engin. Thermophys. 18, 20–38 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1810232809010044

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