HETEROGENEOUS CONDENSATION OF A STEAM ON NANOPARTICLES 
IN A LAMINAR DIFFUSION CHAMBER

A. A. Brin' and S. P. Fisenko

UDC 536.423.4

The heterogeneous condensation of a steam on nanoparticles 
introduced into a laminar diffusion chamber has been investigated 
numerically. It has been shown that we can have a growth of droplets 
with a nanoparticle inside to a radius of the order of a micron even 
in the case of a moderate temperature difference. The time of droplet 
growth occurring virtually in a free-molecular regime is nearly 10-5 sec.

A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National 
Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, 
Belarus. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 79, 
No. 2, pp. 10-13, March-April, 2006. Original article submitted 
March 28, 2005.