Which phenomenon dominates heat transfer when water undergoes nucleate boiling on a hot surface?

💡 Explanation

When water boils in the nucleate regime, bubbles form and detach from the surface because high heat flux causes rapid vaporization, transferring substantial latent heat away as vapor. Therefore, latent heat transport dominates rather than conduction, radiation or bulk convection, because these occur at lower heat fluxes or different phases.

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