Frequency at which vapor bubbles form during boiling

An expression is found for the frequency at which vapor bubbles form; the familiar empirical dependences follow from this expression as particular cases. The theoretical results are in satisfactory agreement with experiment.Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 5, pp. 143–146, September–October, 1970.