INFLUENCE OF RADIATIVE HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER MECHANISM IN SYSTEM WATER DROPLET – HIGH-TEMPERATURE GASES ON INTEGRAL CHARACTERISTICS OF LIQUID EVAPORATION

Physical and mathematical (system of differential equations in private deriva-tives) models of heat and mass transfer were developed to investigate the evapo-ration processes of water droplets and emulsions on its base moving in high-temperature (more than 1000 K) gas flow. The model takes into account a conductive and radiative heat transfer in water droplet and also a convective, conductive, and radiative heat exchange with high-temperature gas area. Water vapors characteristic temperature and concentration in small wall-adjacent area and trace of the droplet, numerical values of evaporation velocities at different surface temperature, the characteristic time of complete droplet evaporation were determined. Experiments for confidence estimation of calculated integral characteristics of processes under investigation – mass liquid evaporation veloci-ties were conducted with use of cross-correlation recording video equipment. Their satisfactory fit (deviations of experimental and theoretical velocities were less than 15%) was obtained. The influence of radiative heat and mass transfer mechanism on characteristics of endothermal phase transformations in a wide temperature variation range was established by comparison of obtained results of numerical simulation with known theoretical data for “diffusion ” mechanisms of water droplets and other liquids evaporation in gas. Key words: evaporation, heat and mass transfer, high-temperature gases, droplets, water, vapo