INFLUENCE OF MOISTURE TRANSFER ON HEAT TRANSFER UNDER THE ACTION 
OF AN INHOMOGENEOUS ELECTRIC FIELD IN CONICAL CAPILLARIES

N. V. Polishchuk, I. M. Panchenko, and M. S. Panchenko

UDC538.6:541.18:577.1:621.187.3:628.335:337:667.2

A numerical study of the influence of an inhomogeneous 
electric field (IEF) on the film moisture transfer in the presence 
of a temperature gradient along a water film in a quartz conical capillary 
has been made. It has been shown that in the case of oppositely directed 
temperature gradients and the electric field (EF) intensity in the 
film, there is a considerable increase in the heat flux in the capillary 
due to the intensification of the transfer of the heat content of 
water as a result of the appearance of additional electromoisture 
fluxes under the action of the ponderomotive forces of the inhomogeneous 
electric field.

Rovno State Humanities University, 31 Ostafov Str., Rovno, 
266000, Ukraine; email: mail@rdgu.rv.ua. Translated from Inzhenerno
-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 77, No. 4, pp. 121-127, July-August, 2004. 
Original article submitted August 7, 2003.