Air humidification by free convection in a vertical channel

被引:11
作者
Orfi, J. [1 ]
Debbissi, C. [1 ]
Mohamed, A. Belhaj [1 ]
Nasrallah, S. B. [1 ]
机构
[1] Ecole Natl Ingenieurs Monastir, Lab Etud Syst Energet & Therm, Monastir 5019, Tunisia
关键词
Humidification; Natural convection; Liquid film; Evaporation;
D O I
10.1016/j.desal.2004.06.182
中图分类号
TQ [化学工业];
学科分类号
0817 ;
摘要
The evaporation of a thin liquid film flowing down on the internal face of one plate of a vertical channel is studied. The wet plate is subjected to a uniform heat flux while the second plate is taken isothermal and impermeable. The governing equations in the liquid and in the gas regions with the boundary and interfacial conditions are solved using a marching fully implicit method. The results obtained for an air-water system show that the interfacial heat and mass transfers depend largely on the inlet liquid film conditions (inlet temperature and inlet mass flow rate) and the external heating flux. In particular, it is observed that the interfacial heat flux may be larger than the heat flux imposed on the wall. This study also shows the importance of taking into account the inertia terms in the liquid energy equation.
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页码:161 / 168
页数:8
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