Abstract Thermal phase transitions driven by heat and mass transfer are common phenomena encountered in both natural and industrial processes. This review aims to address the most significant works describing the temperature-driven liquid-vapor transitions in various setups and configurations. This review discusses different modeling approaches and measurement techniques to develop, optimize, and design the best operating and geometrical parameters, ensuring minimum cost alongside high process safety and efficiency. Given the challenges in measuring local temperature and pressure in complex setups, such as nuclear reactors, it is crucial to develop modeling methods and computational fluid dynamics simulations that incorporate thermal phase change, compressibility, and turbulent flows. This review discusses configurations of boiling and condensation, bubble dynamics, thermal phase change models, and modeling approaches used to investigate macro-, meso-, and microscopic flows, such as the Lattice Boltzmann and molecular dynamics methods. Several benchmark cases and large-scale simulations are described in the context of diverse industrial applications, including the cooling of nuclear reactors, desalination of seawater, and phase change materials. Multi-scale modeling and simulation of interfacial dynamics is highly complex and requires further investigations for the efficient design of engineering processes and enhancement of heat transfer during phase change.
Abu‐Farah et al. (Thu,) studied this question.