Liquid-Vapor Phase-Change Phenomena

Van P. Carey is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department, and holds the A. Richard Newton Chair in Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. Carey is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and he has served as Chair of the Heat Transfer Division of ASME. Carey has received the James Harry Potter Gold Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2004) for eminent achievement in thermodynamics, the Heat Transfer Memorial Award in the Science category (2007) from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is also a three-time recipient of the Hewlett Packard Research Innovation Award for his research on electronics thermal management and energy efficiency (2008, 2009, 2010), and Carey received the 2014 Thermophysics Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Preface. Nomenclature. Introductory Remarks. Thermodynamic and Mechanical Aspects of Interfacial Phenomena and Phase Transitions. The Liquid-Vapor Interfacial Region – a Nanoscale Perspective. The Liquid-Vapor Interface – a Macroscopic Treatment. Wetting Phenomena and Contact Angles. Transport Effects and Dynamic Behavior of Interfaces. Phase Stability and Homogeneous Nucleation. Boiling and Condensation Near Immersed Bodies. Heterogeneous Nucleation and Bubble Growth in Liquids. Pool Boiling. Other Aspects of Boiling and Evaporation in an Extensive Ambient. External Condensation. Internal Flow Convective Boiling and Condensation. Introduction to Two-Phase Flow. Internal Convective Condensation. Convective Boiling in Tubes and Channels. Appendix I: Basic Elements of the Kinetic Theory of Gases. Appendix Ii: Saturation Properties of Selected Fluids. Appendix Iii: Analysis Details for the Molecular Theory of Capillarity. Index.