Heterogeneous Nucleation of Naphthalene Vapor on Water Surface
The evaporation of a water drop into a ternary gaseous mixture of air, steam, and naphthalene vapor was investigated. The experimental results were compared with a theoretical prediction based on a numerical solution of coupled boundary layer equations for heat and mass transfer from a drop moving in ternary gas. In the experiments the naphthalene vapor condensed on the water drop as a supercooled liquid even at temperatures far below the melting point of naphthalene. The condensation on drop surface is discussed in terms of classical theory of heterogeneous nucleation on smooth surfaces.
Smol&iacute;k
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Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals AS CR, Prague, Czech Republic
Schwarz
J