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I am modeling multicomponent evaporation in OpenFOAM 10 using compressibleInterFoam within a VOF framework. The liquid phase is an incompressible multicomponent mixture, and the gas phase is a compressible mixture of inert and non-inert species. Each component evaporates independently following the Hertz–Knudsen equation, where the mass flux is driven by the difference between Raoult’s-law-based equilibrium pressure and a user-defined saturation pressure.
Evaporation induces latent heat removal at the interface, which is included in the energy equation and results in interfacial cooling. The study is conducted in a simple 2D closed domain (walls on all four sides), initially half-filled with liquid (test case: 0.7 H₂O and 0.3 O₂). The initial vapor pressure is below saturation, and evaporation continues until thermodynamic equilibrium is reached and the system pressure approaches saturation. I have a model but I have some coupling issues between volume fraction equation and species equation.
Evaporation induces latent heat removal at the interface, which is included in the energy equation and results in interfacial cooling. The study is conducted in a simple 2D closed domain (walls on all four sides), initially half-filled with liquid (test case: 0.7 H₂O and 0.3 O₂). The initial vapor pressure is below saturation, and evaporation continues until thermodynamic equilibrium is reached and the system pressure approaches saturation. I have a model but I have some coupling issues between volume fraction equation and species equation.
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