NUCLEUS-MoE: Unified Model of Pool Boiling for Liquid Cooling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27722v1
• Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 21:49:16 GMT
• Title: NUCLEUS-MoE: Unified Model of Pool Boiling for Liquid Cooling
• Abstract summary: Two-phase boiling enables heat transfer rates an order of magnitude higher than single-phase cooling.<n>Existing learning-based surrogates are either condition- or fluid-specific, limiting generalization and requiring separate models.<n>We present NUCLEUS, a mixture-of-experts model for pool boiling that replaces collections of specialized surrogates with a single architecture.
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• Abstract: Two-phase boiling enables heat transfer rates an order of magnitude higher than single-phase cooling, but it remains difficult to model due to the strong coupling between phase change, turbulence, and transport, as well as extreme sensitivity to fluid properties and thermodynamic conditions. Existing learning-based surrogates are either condition- or fluid-specific, limiting generalization and requiring separate models. We present NUCLEUS, a mixture-of-experts model for pool boiling that replaces collections of specialized surrogates with a single architecture. NUCLEUS combines neighborhood attention, signed distance field reinitialization for interface consistency, and expert routing that exhibits emergent specialization across distinct boiling dynamics. Trained on high-fidelity simulations of pool boiling, NUCLEUS jointly models saturated and subcooled boiling across three fluid classes (dielectrics, refrigerants, and cryogens), resolving failure modes of prior models on extreme fluids. We show that expert routing exhibits coherent spatial structure and specialization without explicit supervision. Quantitatively, NUCLEUS matches or exceeds baselines while maintaining physical consistency across heterogeneous boiling configurations. We also show zero-shot and few-shot generalization capabilities on downstream tasks such as a new fluid (Opteon 2P50 developed for immersion cooling). These results demonstrate that mixture-of-experts models are a scalable pathway toward unified surrogate modeling of boiling dynamics and lay the groundwork for broader generalization across scientific ML.

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