EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS OF SUPERHEATED AND SUPERCOOLED WATER(REVIEW OF PAPERS OF THE SCHOOL OF THE ACADEMICIAN V. P. SKRIPOV)

摘要

The review presents the results of experimental investigations of nucleation in superheated light and heavy water in the range of nucleation rates from 10~4 to 10~(29) s~(-1)m~(-3). A study is performed of the kinetics of crystallization of droplets of superheated water and amorphous water layers. Measurements have been made of the density, sound velocity, dielectric constant of light and heavy water in the vicinity of the phase equilibrium line with deep entry into the region of metastable (superheated) states. The local and integral characteristics of streams of boiling-up water flowing out into the atmosphere through a short channel have been investigated. One can see the determining role of a vapor phase in such a process at a temperature above 0.9T_c, where T_c is the temper-temperature at the critical point.