Radiative absorption by evaporating droplets

The volumetric heating due to radiation absorption has been computed as a function of radial position for spherical water droplets in black body surrounds of temperatures up to 1450K. The droplet effective absorptance and the time to evaporate from a reference diameter to any smaller diameter have also been computed and tabulated. By taking differences between entries in the table, the time to evaporate from one size to another size can be found. The ray tracing procedure developed for these computations includes polarization, refraction, external reflection, multiple internal reflections, and absorption. (author)