title: Heterogeneous vapor bubble nucleation on a rough surface.
abstract: Vapor bubble nucleation on a microrough surface wetted by a volatile, incompressible liquid has been analyzed. The work of formation of a critical nucleus in a surface cavity has been evaluated. Concave sites of a surface with negative curvature can decrease the height of the activation barrier for the formation of a critical nucleus. The average density of the nucleation sites has been evaluated for a surface whose (small) deviation from a plane is specified by a Gaussian random function.
authors: Pacific Oceanological Institute Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia.
authors: Alexey O
authors: AO
authors: Maksimov
authors: Aleksey M
authors: AM
authors: Kaverin
authors: Vladimir G
authors: VG
authors: Baidakov