Scaling in convective evaporation and sidewall boundary layer

F. Perrier ()

The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, 2005, vol. 45, issue 4, 555-560

Abstract: Turbulent convection at aspect ratios from 0.06 to 2 is investigated in the laboratory with evaporation experiments from vertical cylinders having different diameters and liquid levels. With alcohol, only diffusive evaporation takes place. With water, for small diameters, evaporation proceeds by diffusion whereas convective evaporation develops when the diameter is increased. This onset can be effectively interpreted in terms of a viscous sidewall boundary layer, whose thickness δ varies with respect to the available height h according to δ/h=3.4 Ra -0.28±0.01 versus Rayleigh number Ra. The Sherwood number Sh, analog of the Nusselt number, exhibits a power law variation Sh=0.6 Ra 0.27±0.02 for Ra varying from 10 4 to 3 ×10 8 . The scaling observed in this case of an open boundary is thus similar to the scaling measured in confined Rayleigh-Bénard convection. Copyright EDP Sciences/Società Italiana di Fisica/Springer-Verlag 2005

Date: 2005
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