The investigation on the bubble dynamics and departure characteristics in microgravity is the foundation to reveal the mechanism of boiling heat transfer under microgravity. Under microgravity
bubbles present different behaviors from that in normal gravity condition because of the comprehensive effects of several weak forces. Analyzing the force on a single hydrogen bubble on the plate heating surface and considering the Marangoni effect under microgravity
the bubble departure diameters are calculated for different gravities
pressures
fluid subcooling degree
and superheating degree of the wall. Results show that there might be three bubble departure diameters when the gravity is lower than a certain value
and the biggest departure diameter could increase to tens of centimeters as the gravity decreases. However
the bubble departure diameter in ground gravity is only at the scale of 0.01 - 0.1 mm
which shows that the effects of pressure on the bubble departure diameter are obviously different in normal and micro gravities. The bubble departure diameter declines in normal gravity
but the biggest departure diameter increases with the pressure in microgravity. Under microgravity
the lower the fluid temperature(means higher subcooling degree)
the greater the biggest bubble departure diameter. The biggest departure diameter increases by about 10% with a 1 K increase of the subcooling degree. Under a certain microgravity
there is a critical wall superheating degree
and the existence of three different departure diameters depends on whether the wall superheating degree reaches the critical value. Higher pressure and lower liquid temperature result in lower critical superheating degree.
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