THE POLLUTION OF AN EIGENVALUE PROBLEM (RATE OF EVAPORATION AND DECOMPOSITION OF A DROPLET OF AN OZONE-OXYGEN MIXTURE) BY MEANS OF ANALOGUE AND DIGITAL COMPUTERS

摘要

The rate of evaporation and decomposition of a drop¬let of a 50-50 mole percent mixture of liquid ozone and oxygen in a hot oxygen atmosphere at 20 atmospheres pressure was com¬puted for different sizes of the droplet radius. This is an eigenvalue problem which could be solved with an accuracy of about 2 percent on the PACE analogue computer. As an accuracy check, the one-dimensional problem (rate of evaporation of a large drop) was solved also on the Bendix digital computer. The result differed by 2.2 percent from that obtained on the analogue computer.