Internal dynamics of evaporating droplets

Book · Tue Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1996

OSTI ID:428062

Esmaeeli, A; Arpaci, V ^[1]; Chai, A T ^[2]

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1. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
2. NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH (United States)

The full Navier-Stokes equations and the energy equation are solved for the fluid inside and outside of a droplet using a front tracking/finite difference method. The boundaries of the domain are taken periodic in the horizontal direction and wall bounded in the vertical direction. The behavior of a two-dimensional deformable liquid drop in zero gravity is studied and the dynamics of the flow is analyzed. The effects of governing nondimensional parameters on the evaporation rate are also discussed.

• OSTI ID: 428062
• Report Number(s): CONF-960815--; ISBN 0-7918-1508-0
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

42 ENGINEERING
DROPLETS
EVAPORATION
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION
THEORETICAL DATA
WEIGHTLESSNESS