Droplet breakup and evaporation in liquid-fueled detonations

CJ Young, VO Duke-Walker, JA McFarland - Experimental Thermal and …, 2025 - Elsevier
In liquid-fueled detonations droplets are subjected to a myriad of complex codependent
physical phenomena occurring on overlapping temporal and spatial scales, resulting in …

Interface Preservation in Modeling Compressible Two-Phase Flows Using Six-and Seven-Equation Formulations

LH Hatashita, SS Jain - AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum, 2025 - arc.aiaa.org
Classical diffuse interface methods for non-equilibrium formulations of two-phase flows are
not capable of preserving interface-thickness. Furthermore, when coupled with shock …

Numerical Analysis of Droplet-Shock Interaction With Evaporation Effects

A Sukumaran, B Boyd, D Jarrahbashi - AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum, 2025 - arc.aiaa.org
Depending on the mission and flight trajectory hypersonic vehicles must travel through rain
droplets and clouds of ice particles at various altitudes mainly during take-off or landing. The …

Shock-Induced Deformation and Kinematics of Acetone Droplets

LR Bussiere, P Tarey, J McFarland… - AIAA SCITECH 2025 …, 2025 - arc.aiaa.org
Using detailed 2D axisymmetric numerical simulations, we investigate the deformation and
kinematics of a 10 µm acetone droplet impacted by a Mach 2.4 shock wave. The simulations …

Impact of Liquid Fuel Droplet Size on Detonation Dynamics

S Agee, C Young, V Duke-Walker, M Paudel… - AIAA SCITECH 2025 …, 2025 - arc.aiaa.org
Multiphase detonations with aerosolized liquid fuel are a complex multi-scale multi-physics
problem. The development of detonation propulsion devices utilizing liquid fuels requires an …