中文摘要：

热法海水淡化是太阳能利用海水淡化中重要的研究方向。针对热法海水淡化蒸发冷凝过程的理论模型主要集中在以Dunkle模型为代表的盘式海水淡化模型上。近年来随着新型淡化结构的提出，太阳能集热系统的改进导致操作条件的变化，以及计算机软件、新型检测设备的开发和应用，国内外学者提出了许多新的淡化模型。该文综述了经典理论模型以及近年来新的理论模型，提出了未来的理论研究将针对建立不同腔体类型的模型以及对腔体内部物理场分布的模拟。

英文摘要：

Thermal solar desalination is one of important research direction in solar desalination. The models of heat transfer are more focused on the plate models which are developed from Dunkle. In recent year, with new structure of desalination, solar collector systems leading to changes in operation temperature, as well as computer software and testing equipment improved, a lot of new theory models were proposed. The classical model and new model in recent year were summarized in this paper. The different types of models and the physics simulation of cavity distribution in the future were proposed.