EVAPORATIVE COOLING OF WATER
IN COMPLEX-CONFIGURATION FILM SPRAY ZONES

A. I. Petruchik, A. D. Solodukhin,
and S. P. Fisenko

UDC 536.42:661.426

Evaporative cooling of water in film flows in a double-corrugation 
spray zone is investigated. It is shown that the main contribution 
to the increase in the efficiency of evaporative cooling in such spray 
zones is made by artificial turbulization of air flow on the corrugations 
of the guards. For a sprinkler with guards of arbitrary configuration 
a method of engineering calculation of the efficiency of evaporative 
cooling is suggested.

A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National 
Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, 
Belarus; email: fsp@hmti.ac.by. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 81, No. 1, pp. 171-175, January-February, 2007. 
Original article submitted March 1, 2007.