Physics – Chemical Physics
Scientific paper
2012-04-12
Physics
Chemical Physics
Scientific paper
In this paper, diffusion in polymer solutions undergoing evaporation of solvent is modeled as a coupled heat and mass transfer problem with moving boundary condition within the framework of nonequilibrium thermodynamics. The proposed governing equations derived from the fundamental equation of classical thermodynamics using the local equilibrium hypothesis display more complex connection between heat and non-convective mass fluxes than what has been presented in the previous research works. Numerical computations, performed using an explicit finite difference scheme, indicate that the model is able to capture the effect of thermal diffusion in polymer solutions. This effect manifests itself as an increase in local concentration of solvent near warm substrates during solution casting process.
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