Tonini, S.Cossali, G.E.2017-08-282017-08-282016http://hdl.handle.net/2263/62038Papers presented to the 12th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Costa de Sol, Spain on 11-13 July 2016.Three evaporation models for single-component liquid drop floating in a gaseous environment are compared: two of them rely on the widely used assumption of constant (molar or mass) density and yield an explicit formula for the evaporation rate, while the third model relieves the constant density hypothesis yielding an implicit form of the evaporation rate. The comparison is made for a relative wide range of temperature and pressure operating conditions and for three liquids: water, n-octane and n-dodecane.6 pagesPDFenUniversity of PretoriaMolar-and mass-based approachesDrop evaporation modellingPresentation