The dynamics of the growth of vapour bubbles in a superheated liquid

The boiling of a superheated liquid is investigated assuming that, in the initial state, the liquid and a vapour bubble (or a system of vapour bubbles) are in mechanical and thermal equilibrium. It is shown that the state of a mixture of a liquid and bubbles is unstable due to the action of capillary forces. Linear and non-linear solutions are constructed describing the emergence of the system from the unstable state and also the unbounded growth of a single bubble and the transition into a stable vapour-liquid state when there are bubbles distributed throughout the volume in the initial state.