Droplets under gradients of temperature and velocity by atomistic simulation
Team
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Jadran Vrabec
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Description
The behavior of droplets under strong non-equilibrium conditions is not well understood. With respect to heat and mass transfer phenomena, a decisive role is played by their fluid phase interface. Because of its typically very small spatial extent, processes across the fluid phase interface can directly be studied with atomistic molecular dynamics simulation, which allows for a detailed insight on a sound physical basis. Strong driving force gradients for heat and mass transfer are beneficial for this approach since they increase the signal-to-noise ratio of such calculations.
In the present project, liquid and vapor phases that interact with each other via their interface are studied under non-equilibrium conditions by means of relatively large atomistic systems. Evaporation of droplets is addressed directly. Next to pure fluids, mixtures containing several components are considered. Force field models for the description of the molecular interactions are available from preceding work, e.g. for acetone or nitrogen.
The influence of temperature and velocity gradients on heat and mass transfer will be studied together with the physical properties of the interface. It is aimed at a phenomenological model for evaporation based on molecular dynamics simulation series. The extended critical region, being associated with a spatially significantly extended interface, will be studied as well. In cooperation with other projects of SFB-TRR75, experimental scenarios will be modelled. Data based on atomistic simulations will be supplied for comparisons to CFD and dynamics density functional theory calculations. Moreover, thermodynamic property data will be predicted, particularly for transport diffusion.
Publications
2021
Hitz, T., Jöns, S., Heinen, M., Vrabec, J., Munz, C.-D.:
Comparison of macro- and microscopic solutions of the Riemann problem II. Two-phase shock tube
Journal of Computational Physics, 429, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2020.110027
2020
Hitz, T., Heinen, M., Vrabec, J., Munz, C.-D.:
Comparison of macro- and microscopic solutions of the Riemann problem I. Supercritical shock tube and expansion into vacuum
Journal of Computational Physics, 402, 2020.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2019.109077
Homes S., Heinen, M., Vrabec, J., Fischer, J.:
Evaporation driven by conductive heat transport
Molecular Physics, 2020.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00268976.2020.1836410
2019
René Spencer Chatwell, R. S., Heinen, M., Vrabec, J.:
Diffusion limited evaporation of a binary liquid film
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 132, 2019.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2018.12.030
Reitzle, M., Ruberto, S., Stierle, R., Gross, J., Janzen, T., Weigand, B.:
Direct numerical simulation of sublimating ice particles,
International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 145, 2019.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2019.05.009
Heinen M., Vrabec, J.:
Evaporation sampled by stationary molecular dynamics simulation
The Journal of Chemical Physics, 151, 044704, 2019.
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5111759
2018
Köster, A., Thol, M., Vrabec, J.:
Molecular Models for the Hydrogen Age: Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon, and Water
Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, 63 (2), 305-320, 2018.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jced.7b00706