A unified relationship for evaporation kinetics at low Mach numbers

Zhengmao Lu; Ikuya Kinefuchi; Kyle L. Wilke; Geoffrey Vaartstra; Evelyn N. Wang

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-10209-w

Nature Communications (May 2019)

A unified relationship for evaporation kinetics at low Mach numbers

Zhengmao Lu,
Ikuya Kinefuchi,
Kyle L. Wilke,
Geoffrey Vaartstra,
Evelyn N. Wang

Affiliations

Zhengmao Lu: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ikuya Kinefuchi: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tokyo
Kyle L. Wilke: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Geoffrey Vaartstra: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Evelyn N. Wang: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10209-w
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Evaporation plays a key role in applications such as cooling and desalination. Here, the authors experimentally demonstrated a unifying relationship between dimensionless flux and driving potential for evaporation kinetics under different working conditions.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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