UNS: Collaborative Research: Numerical and Experimental Study of the Instability Mechanisms and Bubble Growth due to Explosive Boiling

这个提议的目的是为非常快速的、爆炸性的蒸汽泡的增长提供急需的洞察力，就像在沸水中一样，但速度更快。这可以通过适当地向液体提供和集中能量来实现。这种知识的一个潜在应用是，由于气泡在微尺度下存在并快速增长，它可以帮助设计通常用于小型设备的微尺度致动器。本科生和研究生都将参与其中，而K-12学生和他们的老师也将接触到这项研究。pi提出了一种实验和建模相结合的方法来(1)确定静态流动中发生爆炸沸腾的参数范围，并在此条件下(2)获得对单个蒸汽核动态生长的基本理解，以及(3)探索多核生长的动力学。目前该领域的研究几乎完全是实验性的，由于实验的复杂性，许多关键方面无法定量探讨。数值模拟将有助于解释实验结果，这些结果将通过高速成像获得，产生急需的定量见解，并有助于解决涉及快速蒸发的更广泛的工程问题。如果捕获了气泡的生长动力学，则可以通过将能量适当地集中在微尺度上的初始生长上，将其用作致动器。如果实验成功，可以提高对以气泡为致动器的微尺度能量聚焦现象的理解。同样，它将有助于改进快沸雾化器的设计，以及涉及挥发性液体运输和储存或大规模能源生产的过程。

1512093 / 1511152Esmaeeli, Asghar / Hermanson, James C. The proposal aims to provide much needed insight of the very rapid, explosive vapor bubble growth much like those in boiling water but even faster. This can occur by properly providing and focusing energy on liquids. One potential application of this knowledge is that, since the bubble comes into existence and grows fast while at micro-scales, it can help design micro-scale actuators commonly used in small devices. Both undergraduate and graduate will be involved in, while K-12 students and their teachers will also be exposed to, the research.The PIs propose a combined experimental and modeling approach to (1) determine the range of parameters over which explosive boiling in quiescent flows will occur and, under this condition, (2) to gain fundamental understanding of the dynamic growth of a single vapor nucleus, and (3) to explore the dynamics of multi-nuclei growth. Current research in the field is almost exclusively experimental in nature, and many crucial aspects cannot be probed quantitatively due to the complexity of experimentation. The numerical modeling will facilitate interpreting experimental results, which will be acquired using high-speed imaging, yielding much-needed quantitative insights and helping to solve problems over a broader range of engineering problems involving rapid evaporation. If the bubble growth dynamics is captured, it can be used as an actuator by properly focusing energy onto its initial growth that occurs at micro-scales. The results can improve understanding of energy focusing phenomena at the micro-scale involving bubbles as actuators if successful. Similarly, it will help to improve the design of flash-boiling atomizers and the processes involving transport and storage of volatile liquids or large scale energy generation.