Thermally activated vapor bubble nucleation : The Landau-Lifshitz-Van der Waals approach
- Submitting institution
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University of Brighton
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 7145504
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1103/PhysRevFluids.3.053604
- Title of journal
- Physical Review Fluids
- Article number
- 053604
- First page
- 1
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 5
- ISSN
- 2469-990X
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Bubble nucleation rates are key to many phase change processes but difficult to predict and, typically, only for extremely small systems treated at an atomistic scale. This paper is significant because it proposes a computationally-efficient model that embeds thermal fluctuations in a continuum diffuse interface framework. Bubbles spontaneously nucleate through fluctuations instead of being patched in the simulation. This opens the possibility to investigate large multiphase systems, observed over much longer durations than possible with even the most advanced atomistic models. This research directly underpinned Magaletti’s successful application for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (BOIL-MODE-ON, 836693).
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- Non-English
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