Phenomenology of boiling: A coupled map lattice model.
A minimal model for boiling is proposed. With increasing temperature of a bottom plate, the model shows three successive phases; conduction, nucleate, and film boiling. In the nucleate regime the heat flux increases with the temperature of the bottom plate, while it decreases in the film boiling regime. In the boiling phase, the maximum Lyapunov exponent is positive, implying that the boiling phenomena are spatiotemporally chaotic.
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The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, 4-6-7 Minami-Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106, Japan.