Droplet Evaporation on Solid Substrate
Application ID: 97071
Droplet evaporation is ubiquitous in everyday life, and is essential in many industrial processes such as ink-jet printing, cleaning or coating of surfaces, and phase change heat transfer.
In this model, a water droplet placed on a solid substrate evaporates in air. We solve the equations for two-phase flow coupled with heat transfer and transport of water vapor. The model is first verified against isothermal analytical solution, and then extended to include nonisothermal effects.
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however, additional products may be required to completely define and model it. Furthermore, this example may also be defined and modeled using components from the following product combinations:
- COMSOL Multiphysics® et
- Module Heat Transfer et
- soit le Module CFD, Module Chemical Reaction Engineering, Module Microfluidics, ou Module Polymer Flow
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