Many models in which the object under study loses all its mass have appeared in the literature. This can be found from evaporating stars to incipient black holes, all the way to evaporating black holes. In this paper we try a semiclassical study of these evaporating models centred on the evaporating event itself. We analyse their common properties, behaviours and possibilities. Specifically, we...

The onset of Marangoni convection for evaporating liquids Brendan D. MacDonald Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Toronto 2012 The stability of evaporating liquids is examined. The geometries investigated are semiinfinite liquid sheets, bounded liquid sheets, sessile droplets, and funnels. Stability parameters are generated to charact...

Summary The conversion of ambient heat into electricity through ubiquitous natural evaporation offers hope for new green energy technologies. So far, evaporation-induced has relied mainly on the classical streaming potential, which is an electric potential generated by driving electrolyte a narrow channel under pressure gradient. Here, we show that ethanol from nanostructured carbon fi...

In this paper, the thermohydrodynamics of an evaporating droplet is investigated by using a single-component pseudopotential lattice Boltzmann model. The phase change is applied to the model by adding source terms to the thermal lattice Boltzmann equation in such a way that the macroscopic energy equation of multiphase flows is recovered. In order to gain an exhaustive understanding of the comp...

The output from a pesticiie screening model indicated that chemicals with low Henry’s Law constants (A,,) will tend to accumulate at the soil surface when water is evaporating, resulting in an increased volrtilixation with time. Volatilixation losses and surface distributions of two pesticides with widely differing KH were measured to test the predictions of the screening model, particularly wi...