The most recent developments in the modelling of heating and evaporation of fuel droplets,
the results of which were published in 2014–2017, are reviewed, and the most important
unsolved problems are identified. Basic principles of power law and polynomial
approximations and the heat balance method for modelling the heating of non-evaporating
droplets are discussed. Several approaches to modelling the heating of evaporating
droplets, predicting different heating and evaporation characteristics, are compared. New …

Recent results of the investigation of automotive fuel droplet heating and evaporation are
summarised. The results of calculations of heating and evaporation of biodiesel fuel
droplets, taking into account the contributions of all components, using the discrete
component models with finite and infinitely small species diffusivities are discussed. It is
pointed out that there are serious problems with the application of the Discrete Components
Model, based on the analysis of diffusion of individual components, to the modelling of …