SIMULATION OF COOLING OF WATER DROPLET AND FILM FLOWS IN LARGE NATURAL WET COOLING TOWERS
A. I. Petruchik, A. D. Solodukhin, and S. P. Fisenko UDC 536.42:661.426 An iterational algorithm for calculation of evaporative cooling of water droplets and films in a cooling tower is proposed. It is found from a comparison of results of theoretical calculation and experimental data that the effective radius of the droplets is approximately equal to 3*10-4m. The contribution of film cooling is shown to constitute at least 70% of the overall temperature decrease of cooled water in the cooling tower. Academic Scientific Complex "A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute," National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 74, No. 1, pp. 45-49, January-February, 2001. Original article submitted June 8, 2000. JEPTER7492020018 JEPTER749208