纳米流体液滴蒸发特性数值模拟研究

Numerical Simulation on Evaporation Characteristics of Nanofluid Droplets

  • 摘要: 本文采用任意拉格朗日-欧拉(ALE)法建立纳米流体液滴在加热基底上蒸发的多物理场数值模型,对液滴蒸发过程进行模拟分析。模型耦合了液滴内外的流动、传热及传质,并模拟了液滴内部纳米颗粒的运动。结果表明,液滴受基底加热和表面蒸发冷却的共同作用,内部产生由表面张力梯度驱动的马兰戈尼涡流,并随着液滴形状扁平化在末期阶段演变出多涡胞结构,导致界面温度和蒸发通量分布出现局部扰动。纳米颗粒在液滴内部被流场所影响,同时颗粒被气液界面捕捉或沉积于基底。研究揭示了纳米流体液滴蒸发过程中温度场、流场、传质的耦合机制和颗粒迁移规律,可为空间环路热管中纳米流体工质的应用提供理论参考。

     

    Abstract: This study establishes a multiphysics numerical model to investigate the evaporation dynamics of nanofluid droplets on heated substrates by employing the Arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian (ALE) method. The model fully couples internal and external fluid flow, heat transfer, and mass transport, while tracking nanoparticle motion within the droplet through a particle-tracing approach. Particular attention is given to the evolution of temperature fields, vapor concentration distributions, interfacial mass fluxes, and the trajectories of suspended nanoparticles during different evaporation stages. Simulation results demonstrate that the combined effects of substrate heating and surface evaporative cooling give rise to a Marangoni-driven vortex circulation inside the droplet. At the early stage, the flow is dominated by a single large-scale vortex that promotes efficient internal mixing. As the droplet geometry gradually flattens in the later stage, this circulation evolves into multiple smaller vortical structures. The appearance of such multi-vortex patterns introduces local perturbations in the interfacial temperature and evaporation flux, which further modulate the overall evaporation rate. Meanwhile, nanoparticles are strongly influenced by the flow field: some are advected towards the liquid–gas interface and then get trapped, while others are transported towards the substrate and eventually deposited, forming non-uniform deposition patterns. These findings reveal the coupled mechanism among temperature distribution, internal circulation, mass transport, and nanoparticle migration during nanofluid droplet evaporation. The results provide new physical insights into the interplay between thermocapillary convection and particle–flow interactions, which are often difficult to capture experimentally. Moreover, the study offers a theoretical foundation for optimizing the application of nanofluid working fluids in loop heat pipes and other thermal management systems in space environments, where efficient phase-change heat transfer and stable nanoparticle behavior are of critical importance.

     

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