SIMULATION OF COOLING OF WATER DROPLET AND 
FILM FLOWS IN LARGE NATURAL WET COOLING TOWERS
A. I. Petruchik, A. D. Solodukhin, and
S. P. Fisenko

UDC 536.42:661.426

An iterational algorithm for calculation of evaporative 
cooling of water droplets and films in a cooling tower is proposed. 
It is found from a comparison of results of theoretical calculation 
and experimental data that the effective radius of the droplets is 
approximately equal to  3*10-4m. 
The contribution of film cooling is shown to constitute 
at least 70% of the overall temperature decrease of 
cooled water in the cooling tower.

Academic Scientific Complex "A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass 
Transfer Institute," National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, 
Belarus. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 74, 
No. 1, pp. 45-49, January-February, 2001. Original article 
submitted June 8, 2000.

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