Condensation of liquid metals under low pressures
The Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is used to study one-dimensional condensation phenomena for a pure vapor or vapor/gas mixture. The results are fitted to an interpolation formula describing the condensation mass flux to provide a usable engineering correlation. For pure vapor, the DSMC results are compared with the available experimental data for condensation of mercury under low pressure. Results are compared also with some of the theoretical models. The comparison shows that the DSMC method is able to detect the qualitative behavior of the condensation mass flux, although it overestimates the mass flux by 20-30%. Compared with other introduced theoretical models, the DSMC method has the most-consistent representation of the qualitative behavior of the condensation mass flux. The method was also used to represent condensation in the presence of a noncondensable gas. A formal proof for choosing collision partners was introduced and applied in the case of condensation in the presence of a noncondensable gas. The method is applied to condensation of mercury in the presence of different monatomic noncondensable gases at different partial pressures.
- Research Organization:
- Wisconsin Univ., Madison, WI (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 5304520
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Thesis (Ph. D.)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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