... equations depending on appropriate physical assumptions. Due to the complexity of the two-phase phenomena, the model is presented and validated by exploring phase transition and droplet dynamics in a turbine cascade geometry. The influence of droplet inertia on localized homogeneous nucleation is examined...

...A. G. Gerber; A. Mousavi The quadrature method of moments (QMOM) is applied to the particle size distribution (PSD) present in nucleating steam flow, with a particular emphasis on conditions relevant to low-pressure steam turbines. These machines exhibit heterogeneous and homogeneous phase...

...Yu Qiao; Xinguo Kong In this paper, the kinetics of the outflow in a microporous particle infiltrated by a nonwetting liquid is analyzed in context of effective phase transformation. The “dewetting” process is considered as the nucleation, growth, and coalescence of empty pore clusters (EPCs...

...Can F. Delale; Kohei Okita; Yoichiro Matsumoto Quasi-one-dimensional steady-state cavitating nozzle flows with homogeneous bubble nucleation and nonlinear bubble dynamics are considered using a continuum bubbly liquid flow model. The onset of cavitation is modeled using an improved version...

...A. G. Gerber This paper describes an Eulerian/Lagrangian two-phase model for nucleating steam based on classical nucleation theory. The model provides an approach for including spontaneous homogeneous nucleation within a full Navier-Stokes solution scheme where the interaction between the liquid...

... the nucleation and bubble growth process in more detail, a photographic study was conducted with the aim of developing high quality visualizations of the dynamical growth of bubbles. [S0098-2202(00)00403-X] Contributed by the Fluids Engineering Division for publication in the JOURNAL OF FLUIDS ENGINEERING...

... in the liquid (Greenspan and Tschiegg 6 ) or bounding solid walls is important for the tensile strength of the liquid. The model of cavity nucleation presented in this paper applies to solid-liquid interfaces in general, i.e., it applies to the nuclei at solid surfaces normally termed “surface nuclei...