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Evaporation and condensation growth of a droplet in a vapor-gas medium for arbitrary knudsen numbers

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In this paper, a study is made of the weak isothermal and nonisothermal evaporation of a particle, taking account of thermodiffusion, for arbitrary Kn numbers, evaporation-condensation coefficient α, vapor concentration c, and arbitrary potential of intermolecular interaction.

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    A. E. Margilevskii & V. G. Chernyak

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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 4, pp. 131–137, July–August, 1985.

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Margilevskii, A.E., Chernyak, V.G. Evaporation and condensation growth of a droplet in a vapor-gas medium for arbitrary knudsen numbers. Fluid Dyn 20, 607–613 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01049897

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