The Effects of Stefan Flow on the Flow Surrounding Two Closely Spaced Particles

Jayawickrama, Thamali R.; Chishty, Muhammad Aqib; Haugen, Nils Erland L.; Bäbler, Matthäus U.; Umeki, Kentaro

doi:10.2139/ssrn.4148124

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“…These solutions assume that no change in the drop temperature occurs. Moreover, Stefan flow is incorporated in some research for drops (Zhao and Nadal, 2023) and particles (Jayawickrama et al, 2023).…”

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Gravitational Interactions of Two Small Evaporating Drops

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2024

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Relative trajectories are determined for a pair of water drops falling in air with radii between 2 μm and 30 μm. The droplets are small enough that diffusion dominates convection in evaporation, but significant drop inertia at low Reynolds number is considered. In addition to hydrodynamic and lubrication forces, attractive van der Waals forces and Maxwell slip are taken into account. Because the loss of mass is not uniform due to the presence of a second drop, and mass transfer and momentum transfer are effectively decoupled, the droplet position needs to be assessed. Three outcomes are compared. The isolated drop result for both droplets is employed as a base case, since the mass loss is constant over each drop surface. Alternatively, the bispherical coordinate solution for two evaporating drops is applied, with the drop positions 1) fixed by the hydrodynamics or 2) allowed to move based on the nonspherical mass loss. In all three cases, evaporation leads to weaker inertial effects and stronger hydrodynamic effects. The single sphere model has the largest drop gap, followed by the bispherical coordinate solutions with a fixed and movable center, respectively. Critical horizontal offsets for coalescence are also calculated with a finite vertical offset. With both attractive molecular forces and slip, all three approaches to evaporation lead to similar results, making the choice of method nearly inconsequential. Moderate agreement between previous experiments and an approximate, generalized form of the current theory is obtained for the evaporation rate of falling drops.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Gravitational Interactions of Two Small Evaporating Drops

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2024

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The Effects of Stefan Flow on the Flow Surrounding Two Closely Spaced Particles

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Gravitational Interactions of Two Small Evaporating Drops

Gravitational Interactions of Two Small Evaporating Drops

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