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Introduction to liquid-vapor phase change

This course is an elementary course on liquid vapor phase change; pertaining to systems involving evaporation and boiling. The first part of the course will provide a synopsis of basic governing equations in fluid mechanics and heat transfer. The second part deals with introduction to phase change (phase stability, types of nucleation, and interfacial instabilities). The third part of the course is focussed on physical aspects such as pool boiling, Leidenfrost effect

Introduction to liquid-vapor phase change

Introduction: Conservation equations, Wetting and contact angles. Phase change: Phase stability, thermal transport at interfaces. Nucleation: bubble nucleation in superheated liquids, Spinodal limit, kinetic limit of superheat. Heterogenous nucleation: Inertial and heat transfer dominated nucleation, pool boiling regimes: nucleate, transition and film boiling.

Introduction to liquid-vapor phase change

Undergraduate and graduate students who wish to understand basics of liquid-vapor phase change and interfacial transport such as evaporation and boiling. This course is also helpful for people in industry who wish to understand the basics of boiling as the physical phenomena of heterogenous nucleation, different boiling regimes such as nucleate, transition and film boiling are observed. We also discuss fundamentals of Leidenfrost effect and drop evaporation.

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