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A unifying criterion of the boiling crisis

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  • Limiao Zhang

    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Anhui University)

  • Chi Wang

    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

  • Guanyu Su

    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    University of California)

  • Artyom Kossolapov

    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

  • Gustavo Matana Aguiar

    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

  • Jee Hyun Seong

    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Los Alamos National Laboratory)

  • Florian Chavagnat

    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

  • Bren Phillips

    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

  • Md Mahamudur Rahman

    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    University of Texas at El Paso)

  • Matteo Bucci

    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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.

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  • Limiao Zhang & Chi Wang & Guanyu Su & Artyom Kossolapov & Gustavo Matana Aguiar & Jee Hyun Seong & Florian Chavagnat & Bren Phillips & Md Mahamudur Rahman & Matteo Bucci, 2023. "A unifying criterion of the boiling crisis," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-16, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:14:y:2023:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-023-37899-7
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37899-7
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    1. Navdeep Singh Dhillon & Jacopo Buongiorno & Kripa K. Varanasi, 2015. "Critical heat flux maxima during boiling crisis on textured surfaces," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 6(1), pages 1-12, November.
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