Characteristic features of evaporative cooling of droplets in high-temperature flows

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Numerical investigation of the evaporative cooling of water droplets in a high-temperature gas flow (temperature above 1000°C) has been carried out for two limiting regimes: a continuous medium and a free-molecular regime. The results of modeling have shown that with a small content of water vapor in the flow, due to evaporative cooling the droplet temperature attains a stationary value that is lower than the stream temperature by hundreds of degrees.

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heat transfer coefficient droplet temperature flow reactor thermophoresis 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer InstituteNational Academy of Sciences of BelarusMinskBelarus

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