Surface temperature of acoustically levitated water microdroplets measured using infra-red thermography

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 63, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 5420-5424

  Wulsten, Eva ^a   Lee, Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic levitation; Droplet; Drying kinetics; Surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; ASPECT RATIO; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CURING; DEWATERING; DROP FORMATION; EVAPORATION; FORECASTING; MOISTURE; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); VAPORS;

ACOUSTIC; ACOUSTIC LEVITATION; ACOUSTIC LEVITATIONS; AIR TEMPERATURES; DROPLET; DROPLET SIZES; DROPLET SURFACES; DROPLET TEMPERATURES; DRY AIRS; DRYING BEHAVIOURS; DRYING KINETICS; DRYING RATES; EVAPORATION RATES; FIELD STRENGTHS; GREAT-ER; MICRODROPLETS; SOUND PRESSURE LEVELS; STREAMING; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; WET BULBS;

DROPS;

EID: 54149101780     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2008.07.020     Document Type: Article

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