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Solution of Special Problems of Film Condensation

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The problem of vapor condensation on a solid surface has been traditionally referred to as a classical problem of two-phase thermo-hydrodynamics. The best-studied case is the condensation of a steady-state vapor on a vertical plate [1, 2] when the hydrodynamics of the laminar flow of a condensate film is determined by the interaction between the gravity forces (the driving force) and the viscous friction on the wall.

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Abbreviations

HTC:

Heat transfer coefficient

NCG:

Noncondensable gas

MM:

Mechanistic model

\(A\) :

Relative heat transfer coefficient

\(c_p\) :

Isobaric heat capacity

\(D\) :

Molecular diffusivity

\(h_fg\) :

Heat of phase transition

\(h\) :

Heat transfer coefficient (HTC)

\(K\) :

Phase transformation number

\(k\) :

Thermal conduction

\({\text{Le}}\) :

Lewis number

\({ \Pr }\) :

Prandtl number

p :

Pressure

\({\text{Re}}\) :

Reynolds number

\({\text{St}}\) :

Stanton number

\({\text{St}}_m\) :

Mass Stanton number

\({\text{Sc}}\) :

Schmidt number

T :

Temperature

\(\alpha\) :

Thermal diffusivity

\(\beta\) :

Mass transfer coefficient

\(\delta\) :

Film thickness

\(\xi\) :

Darcy friction factor

\(\phi\) :

Angular coordinate

\(\nu\) :

Kinematic viscosity

\(\rho\) :

Density

\(\psi\) :

NCG influence coefficient

0:

External

\(b\) :

Flow core

\(\delta\) :

State a liquid film surface

\(m\) :

Vapor-Gas mixture

v:

Vapor

\(w\) :

State at wall surface

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Zudin, Y.B. (2021). Solution of Special Problems of Film Condensation. In: Non-equilibrium Evaporation and Condensation Processes. Mathematical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67553-0_11

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