Evaporation of pure liquid droplets: Comparison of droplet evaporation in an acoustic field versus glass-filament

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 66, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 3914-3921

  Ali Al Zaitone, Belal ^a   Tropea, Cameron ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic levitation; Acoustic streaming; Droplet evaporation; Glass filament; Spray drying; Suspended drops

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC LEVITATION; AIR FLOW; CRITICAL ISSUES; DROPLET EVAPORATION; DROPLET SURFACES; EVAPORATION RATE; GLASS FILAMENT METHOD; GLASS-FILAMENT; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; INTERFACIAL TRANSFER; LIQUID DROPLETS; MODEL PREDICTION; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; PRIMARY MECHANISM; PURE LIQUIDS; SHERWOOD NUMBERS; SINGLE DROPLET; SPRAY SYSTEMS; SUSPENDED DROPS; TOROIDAL VORTICES;

ACOUSTIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC STREAMING; AIR; DROPS; EVAPORATION; GLASS; HEAT TRANSFER; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; LIQUIDS; MASS TRANSFER; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SPRAY DRYING; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW;

THERMOACOUSTICS;

EID: 79959631825     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.05.011     Document Type: Article

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