Tube transport of water vapor with condensation and desorption
Nordbo, A., Kekäläinen, P., Siivola, E., Lehto, R., Vesala, T., & Timonen, J. (2013). Tube transport of water vapor with condensation and desorption. Applied Physics Letters, 102, 194101. doi:10.1063/1.4804639
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Attenuation and delay of active tracers in tube transport is an important current problem, but its full
explanation is still lacking. To this end a model is introduced, where part of a tracer undergoes
condensation and evaporation, treated as a diffusion-type process, in addition to Taylor dispersion.
Condensation of water was verified by high-speed imaging, and the model solution fitted the
breakthrough curves of laboratory measurements with pulses of water vapor of varying relative
humidity. The model provides a transfer function whose performance was verified against field
measurements.