Stability of an Overheated Liquid Containing Vapor-Gas Bubbles
The problem of the stability of an overheated liquid containing bubbles of an insoluble gas is considered. The critical conditions for the masses of gas bubbles, their radii, and volume concentrations are determined for the case of the stable state of the system consisting of a liquid and vapor-gas bubbles. Theory of spontaneous solutions is constructed which describes the exit of the overheated vapor-gas bubble system from the unstable state. On the basis of such solutions, the dynamics of transition of the overheated liquid to a stable state is studied.