This paper presents the results of
mathematical modeling
of the
evaporation of a single water drop from the surface of a copper substrate
using a new model, which does not require special experiments to close
the system of equations and the corresponding boundary conditions
with empirical constants. On the basis of the results of mathematical
modeling, it was found that convective currents that occur in a small
water drop (≤1 mm in diameter) do not significantly affect
the characteristics or conditions of heat and mass transfer processes
occurring in a liquid drop heated on a copper substrate. The results
of numerical simulation showed that during the initial period of droplet
heating, the latter undergoes a rapid transformation of the flow field.
Five seconds after the beginning of the thermal action, a quasi-stationary
regime of flows in the drop sets in. The model is tested on known
experimental data. The theoretical analysis of temperatures at the
characteristic points of a water drop and the surface on which the
drop is located is carried out in ranges of thermal loads quite typical
for practice, conditions for transferring heat and water vapor to
the environment. According to the results of mathematical modeling,
the possibility of using the developed model in the analysis of the
state of cooling of surfaces heated to high temperatures, in cases
typically used, is substantiated.