- Author
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Tartarini, P.
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Liao, Y.
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diMarzo, M.
- Title
- Numerical Simulation of Multi-Droplet Evaporative Cooling.
- Coporate
- Universita di Bologna, Italy
Maryland Univ., College Park
- Journal
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Heat and Technology,
Vol. 11,
No. 1/2,
98-107,
1993
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- ATTI. National Congress on Heat Transfer, 10th. Universita degli Studi di Genova, Italy. March 25-27, 1992,
Genova, Italy,
123-132 p.,
['1992', '1993']
- Keywords
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droplets
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evaporation cooling
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numerical analysis
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formulations
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thermal conductivity
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solid surfaces
- Abstract
- A theoretical study is carried out to predict the thermal behavior of a solid surface subjected to multi-droplet evaporative cooling. A single-droplet numerical code, which has been previously presented and validated, is used here to gain insight into the behavior of a surface subjected to dropwise evaporative cooling. On the basis of the single-droplet results, a generalized model is presented and a novel numerical code is formulated, which analyzes the effects of a multi-droplet evaporative transient on a low thermal conductivity solid surface. The main parameters that characterize the evaporative transient behavior are identified. Some numerical results obtained with this new model are presented and discussed.