Spherical Bubble Growth
- 1 May 1958
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 1 (3) , 201-204
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1724342
Abstract
Plesset and Zwick [M. S. Plesset and S. A. Zwick, J. Appl. Phys. 23, 95–98 (1952); 25, 493–500 (1954); J. Math. Phys. 33, 308–330 (1955)] have calculated the rate of growth of vapor bubbles in slightly superheated steam under constant external pressure. Their calculation assumes that the temperature drop is localized in a thin ``boundary layer'' near the bubble wall; the predicted bubble radius R(t) is asymptotically proportional to t1/2 when R is large enough for surface tension to be negligible. An analysis of this asymptotic phase is given, which avoids the above ``boundary layer'' assumption, and contains that part of the analysis of Plesset and Zwick dealing with this phase as a limiting case. The analysis is shown to be (approximately) applicable also to gas bubbles in supersaturated liquids.Keywords
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