More than five decades ago Kronig and Brink published a classic analysis of transport from translating droplets. Their analysis assumed that the bulk of the resistance to transfer was in the droplet phase. It considered the limiting solution as the Peclet number became very large. Their work has been cited in many subsequent studies of droplet transfer. The present work revisits their solution using numerical techniques that were not then available. It was found that only the first mode of their solution is mathematically accurate. Hence, their solution is accurate only at large times.
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