Interface tracking simulation (ITS) is one of the promising approaches to describe heat transfer of boiling phenomena and their underlying mechanisms. Better understanding and modeling of this process will benefit various engineering systems. In modern nuclear reactors, study on nucleate boiling phenomena is very important for the prediction of the Critical Heat Flux (CHF) phenomena.
The presented research will implement and verify the capability of evaporation process modeling by the massively parallel research code, PHASTA. The comparison of the numerical results and the analytical results demonstrates that the overall behavior of the simulation compares well with the analytical solution. A second simulation of the single bubble growth with non-uniform temperature distribution demonstrates both condensation and evaporation modeling. In the third simulation flow boiling capabilities were preliminary tested with laminar flow demonstration case. These results will be applied to a larger scale, multi-bubble simulations and help modeling of nucleate boiling phenomena.