Surface tension and evaporation: An empirical relation for water
- 1 August 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 46 (4), 2166-2169
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.46.2166
Abstract
Several important phenomenological relations dealing with thermophysical properties of liquids are collected. It is shown that the Laplace ratio between the surface energy and the latent heat improves substantially if we add a volume-expansion term to the surface energy.Keywords
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