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  2. Vapor quality - Wikipedia

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    In thermodynamics, vapor quality is the mass fraction in a saturated mixture that is vapor; [1] in other words, saturated vapor has a "quality" of 100%, and saturated liquid has a "quality" of 0%. Vapor quality is an intensive property which can be used in conjunction with other independent intensive properties to specify the thermodynamic ...

  3. Saturation dome - Wikipedia

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    This quality is defined as the fraction of the total mixture which is vapor, based on mass. [3] A fully saturated vapor has a quality of 100% while a saturated liquid has a quality of 0%. Quality can be estimated graphically as it is related to the specific volume, or how far horizontally across the dome the point exists.

  4. List of atmospheric dispersion models - Wikipedia

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    DISPLAY-2 (Greece) – A vapour cloud dispersion model for neutral or denser-than-air pollution plumes over irregular, obstructed terrain on a local scale. It accommodates jet releases as well as two-phase (i.e., liquid-vapor mixtures) releases. This model was also developed at the National Centre of Scientific Research "DEMOKRITOS" of Greece.

  5. Dimensionless numbers in fluid mechanics - Wikipedia

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    Dimensionless numbers (or characteristic numbers) have an important role in analyzing the behavior of fluids and their flow as well as in other transport phenomena. [1] They include the Reynolds and the Mach numbers, which describe as ratios the relative magnitude of fluid and physical system characteristics, such as density, viscosity, speed of sound, and flow speed.

  6. Maxwell construction - Wikipedia

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    Experiments show that if the volume of a vessel containing a fixed amount of liquid is heated and expands at constant temperature, at a certain pressure, (), vapor, (denoted by dots at points and in Fig. 1) bubbles nucleate so the fluid is no longer homogeneous, but rather it has become a heterogeneous mixture of boiling liquid and condensing ...

  7. Relative volatility - Wikipedia

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    Relative volatility is a measure comparing the vapor pressures of the components in a liquid mixture of chemicals. This quantity is widely used in designing large industrial distillation processes. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In effect, it indicates the ease or difficulty of using distillation to separate the more volatile components from the less ...

  8. Critical point (thermodynamics) - Wikipedia

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    The commonly known phases solid, liquid and vapor are separated by phase boundaries, i.e. pressure–temperature combinations where two phases can coexist. At the triple point, all three phases can coexist. However, the liquidvapor boundary terminates in an endpoint at some critical temperature T c and critical pressure p c. This is the ...

  9. Schmidt number - Wikipedia

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    The turbulent Schmidt number is commonly used in turbulence research and is defined as: [3] = where: is the eddy viscosity in units of (m 2 /s); is the eddy diffusivity (m 2 /s).; The turbulent Schmidt number describes the ratio between the rates of turbulent transport of momentum and the turbulent transport of mass (or any passive scalar).