FLASHING FLOW.docVIP

The term flashing flow is reserved for the flow with dramatic evaporation of liquid due to a drop of pressure P. The process of production of the vapor phase is usually accompanied by massive thermodynamic and mechanical nonequilibrium by virtue of a difference in temperature and velocity of both phases. The rate of evaporation in a fluid volume during the flashing flow changes according to two factors the number of nuclei and the superheat of liquid. Thermodynamic nonequilibrium, which plays the most important role in the flashing flow reflects the necessity of liquid being superheated above