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We pay a special attention to the collapsing processes of vapor bubble injected into a subcooled pool; we try to extract the vapor-liquid interaction by employing a vapor generator that supplies vapor at designated flow rate to the subcooled pool instead of using a immersed heated surface to realize a vapor bubble by boiling phenomenon. This system enables ones to detect a spatio-temporal behavior of a single bubble of superheated vapor exposed to a subcooled liquid. We indicate the condensation rates as functions of the injection velocity of the vapor and the degree of subcooling of the pool. We indicate that an abrupt condensation of the injected vapor results in a fine disturbance over the vapor bubble surface before the collapse stage of the bubble. The wave number is sharply dependent on the degree of subcooling of the pool. The threshold of such a fine disturbance formation over the bubble corresponds with that the occurring condition of the maximum volume reduction rate of the vapor bubble.

A series of experiments on subcooled pool boiling on a plate and on a thin wire are carried out. We focus on the condensation and collapse processes of vapor bubbles generated on the heated surface. We find the different patterns of the vapor bubble behaviors resulting in the emission of the microbubbles around the heated plate and the thin wire by employing high-speed observation with frame rate up to 150,000 frame per second (fps). From the experimental results, we provide a physical explanation on the correlation between the behavior of the vapor bubble at a high heat flux and the heat transfer characteristics. We propose this simple core-periphery model as a qualitative model for understanding the generation of the MEB.

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