Some qualitative features of (internal) problems of convective heat and mass transfer in regions with closed streamlines (Q761916)

A study is made of steady convective mass transfer between a drop and a continuous medium in the case when the resistance to transfer is completely concentrated within the drop, in which an arbitrary bulk chemical reaction takes place. It is shown that the mean Sherwood number Sh on the surface of the drop is bounded (Sh\(\leq k\) const, where the constant depends only on the drop geometry and not on the Péclet number and on k; k is the dimensionless rate of the bulk chemical reaction) and a diffusion boundary layer within the drop cannot be formed merely by increasing the intensity of the circulation of the fluid (i.e., by increasing the Péclet number, Pe\(\to \infty)\). An equation is derived that describes the concentration distribution within the drop at large Péclet numbers for arbitrary rate of the bulk chemical reaction.