Thermodynamic Analysis of Evaporation of Levitated Binary and Ternary Liquid Fuel Droplets under Normal Gravity

Table 1

Properties of the hydrocarbon fuels such as molecular weight, M, liquid-phase density, 𝜌_𝑙, normal boiling point, 𝑇_𝑏, latent heat of vaporization, ℎ_𝑓𝑔, Lennard-Jones potential, 𝜎, and 𝜀/𝑘.

Hydrocarbon fuel	Physical properties
	M (kg/kmol)	𝜌𝑙(kg/m^3)	𝑇𝑏 (K)	ℎ𝑓𝑔 (J/kg)	𝜎 (Ǻ)	𝜀/𝑘 (K)
n-Heptane	100	684	371.6	316700	6.116	429.05
n-Octane	114	703	398.8	302000	6.387	451.68
n-Nonane	128	718	424	293800	6.620	472.17
n-Decane	142	730	447.3	281000	6.835	490.51
n-Dodecane	170	748	489.5	255300	7.227	522.67
n-Hexadecane	226	773	560	232000	8.181	573.33