THEORY AND CALCULATION OF THE CONDENSATION GROWTH
OF A DROPLET IN PURE VAPOR AND IN A VAPOR-GAS MIXTURE
K. M. Aref'ev,a Yu. G. Belostotskii,b and
A. M. Koshelevb

UDC 533.24

Consideration is given to the theory of condensation 
as applied to the liquefaction of gases. Numerical calculations of 
the growth of a droplet using methane as an example revealed the decisive 
role of heat removal from its surface to the ambient medium in condensation 
from both a pure vapor and a vapor-gas mixture. It is shown that for 
very low supersaturations of the vapor, radiative heat removal can 
prevail over convective heat removal.

aSt. Petersburg State Technical University, St. Petersburg, Russia; 
email: talalov@twonet.stu.neva.ru; 
bSt. Petersburg Electronic and Computer Technologies, St. Petersburg, 
Russia; email: belost@elco.spb.ru. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 74, No. 2, pp. 164-170, March-April, 2001. 
Original article submitted January 29, 2001.

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