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A bulk nucleation model for flashing applications

2024· article· en· W4403860493 on OpenAlexafffund
S. John, Carlos F. Lange

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
Topicnanoparticles nucleation surface interactions
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaRGL Reservoir Management
KeywordsFlashingNucleationMaterials scienceThermodynamicsMechanicsComputer scienceStatistical physicsPhysics

Abstract

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Modeling flash evaporation cases is challenging due to their occurrence in high temperatures and mass flow rates, along with mass transfer taking place in a narrow region of space. As an improvement to the previous Limited Evaporation model, which was based on the normalized critical work of nucleation, a new Bulk Nucleation model based on Classical Nucleation theory is developed and tested in comparison with liquid–vapor evaporation experiments conducted at the Brookhaven National Laboratories. The original theory is modified to take into account the cluster size formed during nucleation and a minimum threshold of vapor volume fraction required to trigger large-scale mass transfer. The Bulk Nucleation model shows better predictions for radial volume fractions, representing an improvement over well-correlated predictions for area-averaged pressure and volume fractions. The discrepancy in the radial volume fractions is attributed to the presence of pressure taps used in experiments, which protrude into the fluid domain. The role of model parameters such as cluster size and vapor volume fractions in the mass transfer model is also discussed in detail in this study. Similar to previous work, the new model is implemented in the open-source Computational Fluid Dynamics solver OpenFOAM in an Euler–Euler framework, which provides for the use of inter-momentum forces such as lift, drag, and turbulent dispersion, which are essential for accurate predictions for transport and generation of new vapor bubbles. • A numerical phase change model based on classical nucleation theory. • Decay rates based on cluster size. • Metastability during phase change is captured by the model.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.745
Threshold uncertainty score0.282

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.269
Teacher spread0.250 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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