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It was confirmed in experiments that during contact between cool and hot liquids, the lower sub-cooling of the cool liquid below the saturation temperature changes the characteristics of a vapor layer covering the fragments of hot liquid. This factor also decreases the probability of spontaneous direct contact between two kinds of liquid, explosive incipience of the cool liquid, and pressure pulse generation (the latter triggers fine fragmentation of hot coolant and vapor explosion). The mechanism that describes this trend in vapor layer behavior has been described.
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Research was financially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Project No. 11-08-1262-a).
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Ivochkin, Y.P., Vavilov, S.N., Zeigarnik, Y.A. et al. About lack of fragmentation for hot droplets at low subcooling of coolant. Thermophys. Aeromech. 19, 429–434 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869864312030080
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