A dynamical overview of droplets in the transmission of respiratory infectious diseases

M Zhou, J Zou - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The outbreak of the coronavirus disease has drawn public attention to the transmission of
infectious pathogens, and as major carriers of those pathogens, respiratory droplets play an …

Large-eddy simulation, convective instability, and modal causality of coaxial supersonic air–water jets considering a swirl effect

Y Liu, X Chu, W Wang, B Weigand - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
An annular liquid sheet sheared by a coaxial supersonic gas stream with a swirling effect is
investigated using Large Eddy Simulation. Despite its wide applications in aerospace and …

The effect of nozzle internal flow on spray atomization

A Agarwal, MF Trujillo - International Journal of Engine …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The effect of nozzle surface features on the overall atomization behavior of a liquid jet is
analyzed in the present computational work by adopting three representative geometries …

Capture and re-entrainment of microdroplets on fibers

S Abishek, R Mead-Hunter, AJC King, BJ Mullins - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
The capture of liquid microdroplets on fibers, webs, and surfaces is important in a range of
natural and industrial processes. One such application is the fibrous filtration of aerosols …

An experimental and computational investigation of vortex formation in an unbaffled stirred tank

SS Deshpande, KK Kar, J Walker, J Pressler… - Chemical Engineering …, 2017 - Elsevier
The present article focuses on the quantification of the depth of a depression (ie a vortex)
formed when stirring liquids in an unbaffled stirred vessel. Based on several experiments …

Experimental and computational investigation of subcritical near-nozzle spray structure and primary atomization in the engine combustion network spray D

M Battistoni, GM Magnotti, CL Genzale, M Arienti… - … International Journal of …, 2018 - JSTOR
In order to improve understanding of the primary atomization process for diesel-like sprays,
a collaborative experimental and computational study was focused on the near-nozzle spray …

[HTML][HTML] Sheet, ligament and droplet formation in swirling primary atomization

C Shao, K Luo, M Chai, J Fan - AIP Advances, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We report direct numerical simulations of swirling liquid atomization to understand the
physical mechanism underlying the sheet breakup of a non-turbulent liquid swirling jet …

Resolving the initial spray structure of fire sprinklers with a volume-of-fluid modeling

T Kim - Fire safety journal, 2022 - Elsevier
The initial spray formation process of commercial fire sprinklers was investigated with a
Large-eddy simulation and a Volume-of-Fluid model. The water-supply flow rate was set to …

Spatio-temporal dynamics and disintegration of a fan liquid sheet

M Broumand, A Asgarian, M Bussmann… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The dynamic behavior and disintegration mechanisms of a fan liquid sheet in a quiescent
atmosphere are investigated over a broad range of differential injection pressures up to Δ …

HPC-cloud native framework for concurrent simulation, analysis and visualization of CFD workflows

C Peña-Monferrer, R Manson-Sawko… - Future Generation …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Analysis and rendering of high-resolution computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
simulations often requires execution of multiple parallel data-processing pipelines. In this …