Improvements of evaporation drag model

A special visible experiment facility has been designed and built, and an observable experiment is per- formed by pouring one or several high-temperature particles into a water pool in the facility. The experiment result has verified Yang’s evaporation drag model, which holds that the non-symmetric profile of the local evaporation rate and the local density of vapor would bring about a resultant force on the hot particle so as to resist its motion. How- ever, in Yang’s evaporation drag model, radiation heat transfer is taken as the only way to transfer heat from hot par- ticle to the vapor-liquid interface, and all of the radiation energy is deposited on the vapor-liquid interface and con- tributed to the vaporization rate and mass balance of the vapor film. In improved model heat conduction and heat convection are taken into account. This paper presents calculations of the improved model, putting emphasis on the effect of hot particle’s temperature on the radiation absorption behavior of water.