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Bubble evolution and properties in homogeneous nucleation simulations

Angélil, Raymond; Diemand, Jürg; Tanaka, Kyoko K; Tanaka, Hidekazu (2014). Bubble evolution and properties in homogeneous nucleation simulations. Physical Review E (Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics), 90(6):online.

Abstract

We analyze the properties of naturally formed nanobubbles in Lennard-Jones molecular dynamics simulations of liquid-to-vapor nucleation in the boiling and the cavitation regimes. The large computational volumes provide a realistic environment at unchanging average temperature and liquid pressure, which allows us to accurately measure properties of bubbles from their inception as stable, critically sized bubbles, to their continued growth into the constant speed regime. Bubble gas densities are up to 50 % lower than the equilibrium vapor densities at the liquid temperature, yet quite close to the gas equilibrium density at the lower gas temperatures measured in the simulations: The latent heat of transformation results in bubble gas temperatures up to 25 % below those of the surrounding bulk liquid. In the case of rapid bubble growth—typical for the cavitation regime—compression of the liquid outside the bubble leads to local temperature increases of up to 5 %, likely significant enough to alter the surface tension as well as the local viscosity. The liquid-vapor bubble interface is thinner than expected from planar coexistence simulations by up to 50 % . Bubbles near the critical size are extremely nonspherical, yet they quickly become spherical as they grow. The Rayleigh-Plesset description of bubble-growth gives good agreement in the cavitation regime.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:07 Faculty of Science > Institute for Computational Science
Dewey Decimal Classification:530 Physics
Scopus Subject Areas:Physical Sciences > Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Physical Sciences > Statistics and Probability
Physical Sciences > Condensed Matter Physics
Language:English
Date:2014
Deposited On:24 Feb 2015 09:29
Last Modified:13 Oct 2024 01:36
Publisher:American Physical Society
ISSN:1539-3755
OA Status:Green
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.90.063301
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