Abstract
Abstract Experiments on the depressurization of high-pressure vessels have shown the vaporization to occur in ‘boiling shocks’ moving with the velocity of ∼10 m s−1. This phenomenon was explained by proposing a boiling liquid model accounting for bubble fragmentation. It was shown that an explosive boiling-up was caused by a sharp increase in the interphase area due to a chain process of bubble breakup. In the present study, we use this model, with no change in its free parameters, to simulate the flow in a Laval nozzle. In a critical nozzle flow, boiling occurs to proceed in a shock-type wave as well. It is shown that the formation of boiling shocks may cause autovibrations. The investigation of the shock structure shows that the fulfillment of two conditions is necessary for its realization: Weber number must reach its critical value and the flow velocity must be less than an equilibrium speed of sound. When the conditions cannot be simultaneously realized at a steady-state regime, the flow goes over into a self-oscillation mode.
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