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Condensation of a chemically reactive gas on a horizontal tube

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A numerical solution is presented for a system of differential equations of heat and mass transfer in a boundary layer in the laminar condensation of a gas on a horizontal tube.

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Abbreviations

g:

acceleration due to gravity

r:

external radius of tube

rk :

latent heat of condensation

Pr:

Prandtl number

Sc:

Schmidt number

T:

temperature

x:

distance along circumference

y:

distance along radius beyond the cylindrical surface

μ:

viscosity

ρ:

density

ν :

kinematic viscosity

s:

saturated

δ:

liquid-gas interface

h:

gas

q:

liquid

wl:

wall

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  1. Institute of Nuclear Power Engineering, Academy of Sciences of the Belorussian SSR, Minsk

    A. A. Mikhalevich & V. K. Fedosova

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 40, No. 5, pp. 793–799, May, 1981.

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Mikhalevich, A.A., Fedosova, V.K. Condensation of a chemically reactive gas on a horizontal tube. Journal of Engineering Physics 40, 478–483 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00822112

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