Temperature and chemical composition of droplets by optical measurement techniques: a state-of-the-art review

F Lemoine, G Castanet - Experiments in fluids, 2013 - Springer
The measurement of the sizes and the velocities of droplets relies upon widespread and
well-established techniques, but characterizing their temperature and their composition …

European aircraft parabolic flights for microgravity research, applications and exploration: A review

V Pletser - Reach, 2016 - Elsevier
Aircraft parabolic flights provide repetitively periods of reduced gravity whose duration
depends on the target reduced gravity level and on the type of aircraft used. Typical …

Ethanol droplet evaporation: Effects of ambient temperature, pressure and fuel vapor concentration

AP Pinheiro, JM Vedovoto, A da Silveira Neto… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Ethanol is considered a promising alternative fuel due to its advantages compared to
conventional fossil fuels. Since fuel evaporation plays an important role in many …

Experimental investigation of the effect of droplet size on the vaporization process in ambient turbulence

C Verwey, M Birouk - Combustion and Flame, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents the results of an experimental investigation of the effect of droplet size
on the fuel vaporization process in a turbulent atmosphere at standard ambient conditions …

European parabolic flight campaigns with Airbus ZERO-G: looking back at the A300 and looking forward to the A310

V Pletser, S Rouquette, U Friedrich, JF Clervoy… - Advances in Space …, 2015 - Elsevier
Aircraft parabolic flights repetitively provide up to 23 s of reduced gravity during ballistic flight
manoeuvres. Parabolic flights are used to conduct short microgravity investigations in …

Large eddy simulation of spray evaporation characteristics of alcohol-based fuels based on modified evaporation model with UNIFAC

R Zhang, X Xi, C Zhao, C Liu, S Xu, M Jia… - … Communications in Heat …, 2025 - Elsevier
An accurate description of spray atomization and evaporation behavior is an important
prerequisite for studying fuel spray's combustion performance and emission characteristics …

Effect of flame characteristics on an isolated ethanol droplet evaporating through stagnation methane/air flames: An experimental and numerical study

DK Eyice, M Karaca, F Halter, İ Gökalp… - Combustion and …, 2024 - Elsevier
A single ethanol droplet evaporation through laminar methane/air stagnation flame is
investigated at lean, stoichiometric and rich conditions experimentally and numerically. For …

Numerical Modeling of Laser Heating and Evaporation of a Single Droplet

S Pokharel, A Tropina, M Shneider - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Laser technology is being widely studied for controlled energy deposition for a range of
applications, including flow control, ignition, combustion, and diagnostics. The absorption …

A novel strategy to accurately represent the carrier gas properties of droplets evaporating in a combustion environment

FL Sacomano Filho, GC Krieger Filho… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
A novel approach to accurately represent the carrier gas thermo-chemical properties of
droplets evaporating in combustion environment is proposed and validated in the context of …

Influence of thickening factor treatment on predictions of spray flame properties using the atf model and tabulated chemistry

L Dreßler, FL Sacomano Filho, A Sadiki… - Flow, Turbulence and …, 2021 - Springer
Different strategies to account for the heat and mass transfer between liquid droplets and
their carrier phase within the Artificially Thickened Flame (ATF) approach are analyzed and …