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Growth of vapor bubbles in a highly superheated liquid

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The rate of growth of a bubble is determined from the self-similar solution of the heat-transfer equation. A comparison is made with the Labuntsov-Scriven approximation.

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 41, No. 5, pp. 869–873, November, 1981.

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Pavlov, P.A. Growth of vapor bubbles in a highly superheated liquid. Journal of Engineering Physics 41, 1233–1236 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00824925

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