Heat and mass transfer in disperse and porous media experimental and numerical investigations of nonstationary evaporation of liquid droplets

• DOI: 10.1007/s10891-010-0410-7
• Publication Date: 2010-11-02T10:44:43Z
• Authors: V. I. Terekhov; V. V. Terekhov; N. E. Shishkin; K. Ch. Bi
• Keywords: 0103 physical sciences; 01 natural sciences

The results of experimental and numerical investigations of the nonstationary process of evaporation of droplets of pure liquids into a dry air at variable initial temperature of a droplet, temperature of the gas medium, and relative velocity of flow around a droplet are presented. The regions of application of the well-known laws of change in the size of an evaporating droplet in time depending on the thermal gas-dynamic conditions and thermophysical properties of the liquid and gas phases have been analyzed.