Investigation of randomness, overlap and the interaction of bubbles forming at adjacent nucleation sites in pool boiling

A computer simulation of the experimental research carried out by Chopra (1992) using the same boiling conditions and boiling surface data is reported in this paper. The interaction of the bubbles forming at adjacent sites was governed by the site seeding principle as postulated by Judd. A Gamma distribution was used to analyse the time elapsed between the formation of bubbles at different pairs of dominant and passive sites. The relationship …