1996
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.54.1640
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Natural convection in droplet evaporation

Abstract: Although droplet evaporation is widely assumed to be a diffusion process, our results show that when a droplet evaporates sufficiently fast it exhibits a vigorous interior flow. This flow is driven by surface tension gradients. The typical interior flow field behavior is shown as well as measurements of the droplet surface area and volume as it evaporates. We also discuss the droplet lifetime and how the system tends toward a state of marginal stability.

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“…For a rapidly evaporating droplet, for example, the flow may be mainly generated by the Marangoni effect. 16,32 Recently, the evaporation characteristics of the water droplet were also observed and found to depend on various surrounding conditions such a) Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Electronic mail: hclim@pusan.ac.kr Phys.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For a rapidly evaporating droplet, for example, the flow may be mainly generated by the Marangoni effect. 16,32 Recently, the evaporation characteristics of the water droplet were also observed and found to depend on various surrounding conditions such a) Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Electronic mail: hclim@pusan.ac.kr Phys.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…-the conduction heat transfer into the wall, -the convective heat transfer induced by the surface tension gradients and the natural convection due to the temperature gradients in the liquid drop, -the liquid/wall molecular interactions, coupled with the substrate surface roughness, which tend to Hegseth (Hegseth et al 1996(Hegseth et al ) 1996 Exp. Ethanol, polystyrene particles -Chandra (Chandra et al 1996) 1996 Exp.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There are a few experimental studies that attempt to give further understanding of the drop evaporation using specific techniques. Hegseth et al (1996) and Kang et al (2003) have used PIV to visualize the fluid flow inside the drop, by charging the ethanol drop with polystyrene particles. Whilst Zhang and Chao (2001) have used a laser shadowgraphy method to visualize the fluid flow.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…18,19 Such flows are characterized by the Marangoni number Ma ≡ |dσ/dT|ΔTR/(ηα), where dσ/dT is the change of the interfacial tension with temperature, ΔT is a temperature difference, R the radius of the droplet, a the dynamic viscosity and α the thermal diffusivity. An upper bound for Ma for hexane as used in our experiments is 5, far below the critical number of 80 reported for the onset of Marangoni flows, 19 which excludes Marangoni flows as an explanation for the formation of different supraparticles. Pickering-Ramsden emulsions with nanoparticles trapped at the liquid-liquid interfaces 20,21 can also be excluded as structure-directing mechanism.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%