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) One of the major functions of cooling tower is to cool hot but dry gas...

) One of the major functions of cooling tower is to cool hot but dry gas flow via spray vaporization under a counter-flow mode.  

a);List governing mechanisms (e.g., mass, momentum and heat transfer) and major assumptions for problem simplification;

b);Establish a heat transfer model of gas cooling, as well as a hydrodynamics model of droplet transport that is coupled with gas heating and vaporization

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