Figure 2

Variation of simulated water evaporation flux versus the thermal conductivity of the container for different geometries studied experimentally in the literature. The solid curves show the simulated fluxes at different pressures and the data points show the measured values at the corresponding pressures shown on the curves. Different panels show the simulation results and measured evaporation fluxes for the experimental geometries used in the studies of (a) Kazemi et al.⁴³, (b) Ward and Duan³³, (c) Kazemi et al.⁴⁴, and (d) Badam et al.²⁷. The arrows on the x-axes indicate the thermal conductivity of the container used in the experiments. Insets show expanded regions at the thermal conductivities of the experiments. Panel (e) shows a comparison between the evaporation fluxes in different geometries and how accurately the model can predict the evaporation fluxes across geometries and across container thermal conductivities.