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Separation of a vapor bubble and calculation of the critical bubble radius

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On the basis of the solution to the equation of motion of a variable mass, a formula is derived for analytically calculating the critical radius of a vapor bubble in a boiling liquid during free flow of the latter.

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Translated from Ihzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 831–835, May, 1973.

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Fedotkin, I.M., Konstantinov, S.M. & Tereshchenko, A.A. Separation of a vapor bubble and calculation of the critical bubble radius. Journal of Engineering Physics 24, 589–592 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00838617

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