Fig. 5: Thermofluidic surface bubble growth simulations.
From: Bubble nucleation and growth on microstructured surfaces under microgravity
a Air solubility in water at 1 atm pressure as a function of temperature. b The space bubble volume as a function of the square root of heating time after nucleation, t0.5. c The snapshots showing the collapse of a surface bubble (yellow circle) in the space microgravity environment. After collapse, many smaller bubbles (blue circles) were generated at the nucleation site (red line) on the substrate. d The simulated temperature profiles around space (upper) and terrestrial (lower) bubbles. e The simulated bubble interface temperature as a function of arc length in the space microgravity (red) and terrestrial (black) models. The insert shows the plotting path along the bubble interface.
