Transient supercritical droplet evaporation with emphasis on the effects of equation of state (Q1579347)

This paper deals with numerical investigation of droplet evaporation in a supercritical environment. A numerical model is developed to simulate the transcritical and supercritical droplet vaporization phenomena. The numerical solution of two-phase equations employs an arbitrary Eulerian-Lagrangian explicit-implicit method with dynamically adaptive mesh. It is shown that at low to moderate ambient temperatures, the droplet lifetime first increases and then decreases as the ambient pressure is increased, while at high ambient temperatures, the droplet lifetime decreases monotonically with pressure.