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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-397-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-397-2022
Research article
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25 Jan 2022
Research article |  | 25 Jan 2022

Evaporation front and its motion

Jiří Mls

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In the paper the evaporation front is considered the interface that separates the wet part of a porous medium from its dry surroundings, and its exact definition in time and space is given. Subsequently, the law of the front's motion is derived. The general problem governing completely the front's motion is formulated and, for a special case, solved numerically. It is shown that the solution makes it possible to locate the rate of vaporization in time and space.