International audienceIn this work, we investigate closure laws for the description of interfacial mass transfer in cavitating flowsunder thermal regime. In a first part, we show that, if bubble resident time in the low pressure area of theflow is larger than the inertial/thermal regime transition time, bubble expansion are no longer monitoredby Rayleigh equation, but by heat transfer in the liquid phase at bubbles surfaces. The modelling of inter-facial heat transfer depends thus on a Nusselt number that is a function of the Jakob number and of thebubble thermal Péclet number. This original approach has the advantage to include the kinetic of phasechange in the description of cavitating flow and thus to link interfacial heat flux to interfacial mass fluxduring vapour production. The behaviour of such a model is evaluated for the case of inviscid cavitatingflow in expansion tubes for water and refrigerant R114 using a four equations mixture model. Comparedwith inertial regime (Rayleigh equation), results obtained considering thermal regime seem to predictlower local gas volume fraction maxima as well as lower gradients of velocity and gas volume fraction.It is observed that global vapour production is closely monitored by volumetric interfacial area (bubblesize and gas volume fraction) and mainly by the Jakob number variations. It is found that, in contrast withphase change occurring in common boiling flow, Jakob number variation is influenced by phasic temper-ature difference but also by density ratio variation with pressure and temperature
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