Abstract
During steady-state water evaporation, when the vapor phase is heated electrically, the temperature on the vapor side of the interface has been reported to be as much as 27.83 degrees C greater than that on the liquid side. The reported interfacial temperatures were measured with thermocouple beads that were less than 50 microm in diameter and centered 35 microm from the interface in each phase. We examine the reliability of these measurements by using them with a theory of kinetics to predict the interfacial-liquid temperature. The predicted temperature discontinuities are found to be in agreement with those measured up to a temperature discontinuity of 15.69 degrees C , but larger discontinuities cannot be confirmed because of uncertainties in the vapor-phase pressure measurements. The theory of kinetics used in the analysis includes molecular phonons in the expression for the evaporation flux. We show it is essential to include these terms if the theory is to be used to predict the temperature discontinuities.
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