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Evaporating Menisci of Wetting Fluids STEVEN MOOSMAN AND G. M. HOMSY Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 Received February 18, 1979; accepted June 4, 1979 We model the transport processes occurring in a horizontal evaporating meniscus which is af- fected by both capillarity and by multilayer adsorption. Perturbation theory is used to describe the profile change relative to the static isothermal profile. We solve for this deviation profile, as well as for the evaporative flux from the interface, for a range of values appropriate to the nondimen- sional parameters in the model. The results clearly demonstrate that large heat fluxes can occur in the transition region between the capillary meniscus and the adsorbed layer. Moreover, the devia- tion profile predicts a thinning in the meniscus region with a shift in the apparent zero toward the gap, a m u c h thinner nonevaporating adsorbed film, and an increase in apparent contact angle. I N T R O D U C T I O N at the same conclusion in studying heat transfer characteristics of menisci formed at Evaporation from a meniscus which wets the exit of a capillary tube. Renk and Way- a heated solid surface is of critical im- net (3-5) used optical interferometry portance in many heat transfer processes to determine the profile of an evaporating which rely on the latent heat of vaporiza- meniscus formed at the exit of the gap be- tion of a liqu