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30 2. Mathematical Modeling<br />

liquid and film properties.<br />

The work of Sirignano [140] classified the single component droplet evaporation<br />

models into six types, and they are given in the or<strong>der</strong> of complexity as, (1) constant<br />

droplet temperature model (also known as the d 2 law), (2) infinite liquid conductivity<br />

model (uniform but time dependent droplet temperature), (3) conduction limit (spherically<br />

symmetric transient droplet heating) model, (4) effective conductivity model, (5)<br />

vortex model of droplet heating, and (6) Navier – Stokes solution. There are various<br />

differences among these models, and some of these models are shown to be limits of<br />

another model [140].<br />

Recent study of Sazhin [147] gives an overview of all the existing droplet evaporation<br />

models, particularly in the field of combustion studies.<br />

For evaporating water spray flow in air, the spatial gradients of the temperature<br />

within the droplet will not be significant when the evaporation conditions are room<br />

temperature and atmospheric pressure. Thus, in the current study, uniform but time<br />

dependent droplet temperature with convective effects can be used to predict the evaporation<br />

rate, and the droplet size regression. Therefore, for evaporating water sprays<br />

un<strong>der</strong> room temperature and pressure conditions, the model of Abramzon and Sirignano<br />

[62] is implemented, which is a uniform temperature model that includes the convective<br />

effects, and consi<strong>der</strong>s the variable liquid and film properties. Here film means<br />

a thin layer across the droplet surface where the saturation of liquid vapor exists, and<br />

this vapor mass fraction is computed based on the vapor-liquid equilibrium.<br />

The rate of change of droplet mass with time due to convective evaporation and<br />

droplet heating in water spray is computed as [62]<br />

ṁ = 2πRρ f D f ˜Sh ln(1 + BM ), (2.41)<br />

where R is the droplet radius, ρ f is the density in the film, D f is the water diffusivity in<br />

the film, ˜Sh is the modified Sherwood number that accounts for the convective effects<br />

of droplet evaporation [62], given as<br />

˜Sh = 2 + Sh − 2<br />

B M<br />

(1 + B M ) ln(1 + B M ). (2.42)<br />

Here, Sh is the Sherwood number, which is defined as the ratio of convective mass<br />

transfer to the diffusion mass transport, and it is generally written in terms of the<br />

droplet Reynolds number, Re d , and Schmidt number, Sc, given by [62]<br />

Sh = 1 + (1 + Re d Sc) 1/3 f(Re d ). (2.43)<br />

The droplet Reynolds number is defined as the ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces,<br />

which is written as Re d = 2rρ g |u − v|/µ f . The Schmidt number is used to characterize

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