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Temperature Dependence of Evaporation Coefficient for Water Measured in Droplets in Nitrogen under Atmospheric Pressure

D. Jakubczyk Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

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M. Kolwas Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

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01 Mar 2007
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS3860.1
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Abstract

The evaporation and the thermal accommodation coefficients for water in nitrogen were investigated by means of the analysis of evaporation of pure water droplet as a function of temperature. The droplet was levitated in an electrodynamic trap placed in a climatic chamber. The levitation time was in the range of seconds, which corresponds to the characteristic time scales of cloud droplet growth. Droplet radius evolution and evaporation dynamics were studied as a function of temperature, by analyzing the angle-resolved light scattering Mie interference patterns. A model of droplet evolution, accounting for the kinetic effects near the droplet surface, was applied. The evaporation coefficient for the temperature range from 273.6 to 298.3 K was found to be between 0.054 and 0.12 with a minimum of 0.036 ± 0.015 seemingly coinciding with water maximum density at 277.1 K. The average value of thermal accommodation coefficient over the temperature range from 277 to 289 K was found to be 0.7 ± 0.2.

Corresponding author address: D. Jakubczyk, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, AI. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland. Email: jakub@ifpan.edu.pl

Abstract

The evaporation and the thermal accommodation coefficients for water in nitrogen were investigated by means of the analysis of evaporation of pure water droplet as a function of temperature. The droplet was levitated in an electrodynamic trap placed in a climatic chamber. The levitation time was in the range of seconds, which corresponds to the characteristic time scales of cloud droplet growth. Droplet radius evolution and evaporation dynamics were studied as a function of temperature, by analyzing the angle-resolved light scattering Mie interference patterns. A model of droplet evolution, accounting for the kinetic effects near the droplet surface, was applied. The evaporation coefficient for the temperature range from 273.6 to 298.3 K was found to be between 0.054 and 0.12 with a minimum of 0.036 ± 0.015 seemingly coinciding with water maximum density at 277.1 K. The average value of thermal accommodation coefficient over the temperature range from 277 to 289 K was found to be 0.7 ± 0.2.

Corresponding author address: D. Jakubczyk, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, AI. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland. Email: jakub@ifpan.edu.pl

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