| has gloss | eng: Stefan flow, occasionally called Stefan's flow (Slovene Stefanov tok), is a transport phenomena concerning the movement of a chemical species by a flowing fluid (typically in the gas phase) that is induced to flow by the production or removal of the species at an interface. Any process that adds the species of interest to or removes it from the flowing fluid may cause Stefan flow, but the most common processes include evaporation, condensation, chemical reaction, sublimation, ablation, adsorption, absorption, and desorption. It was named after the Slovene physicist, mathematician, and poet Joseph Stefan for his early work on calculating evaporation rates. |