Condensation on a spray of water drops: A cell model study .2. Transport quantities

The formulation for a unit cylinder cell model that was used to analyze the hydrodynamics and heat transfer associated with steam condensation on a spray of equal sized water droplets was presented in part I of this study. In this part II, we report the results and discussions for the condensation induced interfacial velocities, surface shear stress, Nusselt number and the Sherwood number. The heat transport in both phases and the species transport in the continuous phase have been treated as transient processes. The interactions between neighboring drops have been examined. Numerically obtained transport results have been compared with an experimental study. Results for a representative spray show that the use of correlations developed for an isolated drop to predict condensation spray behavior may be inaccurate, although isolated drop studies continue to merit investigations. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd.