Improved droplet breakup models for spray applications

D Stefanitsis, G Strotos, N Nikolopoulos… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The current study examines the performance of two zero-dimensional (0D) aerodynamically-
induced breakup models, utilized for the prediction of droplet deformation during the …

Numerical investigation of the aerodynamic breakup of Diesel and heavy fuel oil droplets

D Stefanitsis, I Malgarinos, G Strotos… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Secondary atomization plays an important role in the operation of liquid injection systems
encountered in many engineering applications such as in oil burners and internal …

Numerical investigation of the aerodynamic droplet breakup at Mach numbers greater than 1

D Stefanitsis, P Koukouvinis… - Journal of Energy …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
The present work examines numerically the breakup of water droplets exposed to gas flows
at Mach numbers Ma> 1, which resemble the ambient conditions encountered in the …

Numerical investigation of the aerodynamic breakup of droplets in tandem

D Stefanitsis, I Malgarinos, G Strotos… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The present work examines the aerodynamic breakup of four liquid droplets in tandem
formation at Diesel engine conditions using the Volume of Fluid (VOF) method. The …

Numerical investigation of the aerodynamic breakup of a parallel moving droplet cluster

D Stefanitsis, G Strotos, N Nikolopoulos… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The present work examines numerically the aerodynamic breakup of a cluster of Diesel
droplets moving in parallel with respect to the gas flow. Two-and three-dimensional …

Direct numerical simulation of secondary droplet breakup in fuel sprays

S Dionysios - 2020 - openaccess.city.ac.uk
The current work investigates numerically the breakup of isolated droplets and droplet
clusters in representative engine conditions. A CFD model in the commercial software …

[PDF][PDF] ORCID: 0000-0003-0874-8534 (2019). Numerical investigation of the aerodynamic breakup of a parallel moving droplet cluster

D Stefanitsis, G Strotos, N Nikolopoulos… - International Journal of … - core.ac.uk
The present work examines numerically the aerodynamic breakup of a cluster of Diesel
droplets moving in parallel with respect to the gas flow. Two-and three-dimensional …