[feitoudaer]

hello cfd fellow colleagues, i have a question regarding bubble nucleation site prediction. i kind of begin to work on this topic, and therefore may ask naive questions. i was wondering if we had a DETERMINISTIC method to predict the nucleation site of a bubble. this can be a general cfd method, lattice boltzmann method, molecular dynamics method or other methods i don't know. i have searched the literature. it seems to me that the nucleation site was always predetermined before the simulation rather than determined by some approach. i have seen the concept of nucleation site density being discussed. but i would like to determine where the nucleation, followed by bubble growth, would occur with known initial conditions. your comments would be much appreciated. a negative answer would also be useful, say if you think such a method does not exist currently and some stochastic approach is a must.