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Old   May 4, 2013, 10:10
Default Simulating condensation using evaporation-condensation model
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Hi,

I'm modeling a wall-bounded flow with boundary conditions of a velocity inlet and no outflow. I enabled evaporation-condensation model to account for the mass transfer along with the phase change. Since the working fluid is user-defined and I didn't input its latent heat values, I was wondering how is energy transfer considered in the model? (I didn't find a place where I can manully define the energy source term.)

And according to FLUENT theory guide, the evaporation-condensation model is only available with mixture or Eulerian multiphase models, probably because of the smaller-than-grid scale of the interface length. I actually used VOF model and discovered the condensation. Is my result valid? And what's the specific length scale of the droplets FLUENT used in its model?

Thank you very much!
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