Abstract
Evaporation of a liquid occurs when molecules escape from the main body of the liquid due to thermal agitation. The escaping molecules move with sufficient speed to break through the interfacial surface tension; i. e., they possess kinetic energy exceeding the work function of cohesion at the surface. Since only a small portion of the molecules is at any instant located near enough to the surface and moving in the proper direction to escape, the rate of evaporation is limited.
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Bharathan, D. (1988). Direct-Contact Evaporation. In: Kreith, F., Boehm, R.F. (eds) Direct-Contact Heat Transfer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-30182-1_11
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