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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER
Volume 53, Issue 19-20, Pages 3733-3744Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2010.04.024
Keywords
Droplet impact; Droplet evaporation; Interfacial heat transfer; Temperature measurement; Laser temperature measurement; High-speed visualization; Numerical simulation
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- Chemical Transport Systems Division of the US National Science Foundation [0622849]
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [0622849] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The objective of this work is to investigate the coupling of fluid dynamics, heat transfer and mass transfer during the impact and evaporation of droplets on a heated solid substrate. A laser-based thermoreflectance method is used to measure the temperature at the solid-liquid interface, with a time and space resolution of 100 mu s and 20 mu m, respectively. Isopropanol droplets with micro- and nanoliter volumes are considered. A finite-element model is used to simulate the transient fluid dynamics and heat transfer during the droplet deposition process, considering the dynamics of wetting as well as Laplace and Marangoni stresses on the liquid-gas boundary. For cases involving evaporation, the diffusion of vapor in the atmosphere is solved numerically, providing an exact boundary condition for the evaporative flux at the droplet-air interface. High-speed visualizations are performed to provide matching parameters for the wetting model used in the simulations. Numerical and experimental results are compared for the transient heat transfer and the fluid dynamics involved during the droplet deposition. Our results describe and explain temperature oscillations at the drop-substrate interface during the early stages of impact. For the first time, a full simulation of the impact and subsequent evaporation of a drop on a heated surface is performed, and excellent agreement is found with the experimental results. Our results also shed light on the influence of wetting on the heat transfer during evaporation. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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