Diffusion limited evaporation of a binary liquid film

An analytical solution of a model fluid’s time behavior, known as the Stefan problem, is presented. A scenario is investigated in which a planar two-component liquid film is continuously evaporating into a thermodynamically non-ideal vapor phase. Evaporation is initiated and maintained by a spatial chemical potential gradient, while its rate is limited by the components’ diffusion fluxes across the vapor-liquid interface. Local thermodynamic...