The stability of an evaporating liquid surface
| dc.contributor.author | Prosperetti, Andrea | |
| dc.contributor.author | Plesset, Milton S. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-03-10T19:12:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-03-10T19:12:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1984-07 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A linearized stability analysis is carried out for an evaporating liquid surface with a view of understanding some observations with highly superheated liquids. The analytical results of this study depend on the unperturbed temperature near the liquid surface. The absence of this data renders a comparison with experiment impossible. However, on the basis of several different assumptions for this temperature distribution, instabilities of the interface of a rapidly evaporating liquid are found for a range of wavenumbers of the surface wave perturbation. At large evaporating mass flow rates the instability is very strong with growth times of a millisecond or less. A discussion of the physical mechanism leading to the instability is given. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Copyright 1984 Physics of Fluids. Recommended citation: Prosperetti, Andrea, and Milton S. Plesset. "The stability of an evaporating liquid surface." The Physics of fluids 27, no. 7 (1984): 1590-1602. DOI: 10.1063/1.864814 URL: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.864814 Reproduced in accordance with the original publisher’s licensing terms and with permission from the author(s). | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10657/6067 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | The Physics of Fluids | |
| dc.subject | Fluid flows | |
| dc.subject | Surface waves | |
| dc.subject | Liquids | |
| dc.title | The stability of an evaporating liquid surface | |
| dc.type | article |