A model for unsteady droplet vaporization is presented that considers the droplet temperature range from flash-boiling conditions to normal evaporation. The theory of continuous thermodynamics was used to model the properties and compositions of multicomponent fuels such as gasoline. In order to model the change of evaporation rate from normal to boiling conditions more realistically, an unsteady internal heat flux model and a new model for the determination of the droplet surface temperature is proposed. An explicit form of the equation to determine the heat flux from the surrounding gas mixture to the droplet-gas interface was obtained from an approximate solution of the quasi-steady energy equation for the surrounding gas mixture, with the inter-diffusion of fuel vapor and the surrounding gas taken into account. The model was applied to calculate evaporation processes of droplets for various ambient temperatures and droplet temperatures.
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