Review of boiling explosion due to homogeneous nucleation in theoretical and experimental approach

Abstract

Boiling explosion phenomena are experimentally observed in various fields and are applied in macro- and nano-fields. Analysis of boiling explosion has been recently conducted from a non-equilibrium point of view to understand the experimental results under some special conditions such as linear quick heating, ultra high heat flux pulse heating, and liquid contact with high temperature surface. Analytical result is shown to agree well with those experimental results.

Keywords

• boiling explosion
• homogeneous nucleation boiling
• quick heating
• quench
• pulse heating