Comparative Calculation of the Interphases Heat and Mass Transfer in Spray Apparatus for the Regimes of Cocurrent and Countercurrent of Phases with Consideration of the Drag Crisis and Heat and Mass Transfer Crisis

Abstract

The article presents new details of an algorithm and compares the results of calculating the heat and mass transfer of water and air in spray apparatus for the regimes of cocurrent and countercurrent of phases, taking into account the early crisis of drops drag and the accompanying crisis of heat and mass transfer. The mathematical model used is based on nonstationary differential equations for the flow of a compressible medium, supplemented with the equations of heat and mass transfer from drops to the gas. The known explicit Lax–Wendroff scheme is used in difference analogs of the equations of continuity and phases flow. The distributions of phases velocities and temperatures, and densities of water vapor in air and saturated vapor near the surface of drops in the two-phase flow are calculated to compare the co- and countercurrent flows of phases through the cylindrical apparatus. In particular, the calculations determined the dependences of the average temperatures of the gas and the liquid over the outlet section of the apparatus for each phase on the gas flow through it.