Analysis of diesel spray dynamics using a compressible Eulerian/VOF/LES model and microscopic shadowgraphy

M Ghiji, L Goldsworthy, PA Brandner, V Garaniya… - Fuel, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents numerical and experimental analysis of diesel engine spray dynamics
in the region very close to the nozzle exit. Diesel fuel is injected through a single solid cone …

Numerical and experimental investigation of early stage diesel sprays

M Ghiji, L Goldsworthy, PA Brandner, V Garaniya… - Fuel, 2016 - Elsevier
Experimental and numerical investigations of primary atomization in a high-pressure diesel
jet are presented. Information on flow processes and structures inside and near nozzle exit …

Conservative and bounded volume-of-fluid advection on unstructured grids

CB Ivey, P Moin - Journal of Computational Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel Eulerian–Lagrangian piecewise-linear interface calculation
(PLIC) volume-of-fluid (VOF) advection method, which is three-dimensional, unsplit, and …

Improved hybrid model applied to liquid jet in crossflow

DH Fontes, V Vilela, L de Souza Meira… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Spray formation in a liquid jet in air crossflow is investigated numerically using a hybrid
approach for two cases: W e= 11 and W e= 53, where We is the air Weber number. The VOF …

Primary atomization of liquid jets: Identification and investigation of droplets at the instant of their formation using direct numerical simulation

E Trautner, J Hasslberger, S Ketterl, M Klein - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
A detailed investigation of droplet characteristics for the primary atomization of a round liquid
jet injected into stagnant gas is performed using direct numerical simulation. The material …

Computational study of atomization and fuel drop size distributions in high-speed primary breakup

L Bravo, D Kim, F Ham, S Su - Atomization and Sprays, 2018 - dl.begellhouse.com
The fundamental physical process of an atomizing spray produced by a pulsed injector
plays a crucial role in analyzing the combustion dynamics in many propulsion-related …

Effect of saliva fluid properties on pathogen transmissibility

J Reyes, D Fontes, A Bazzi, M Otero, K Ahmed… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
With an increasing body of evidence that SARS-CoV-2 is an airborne pathogen, droplet
character formed during speech, coughs, and sneezes are important. Larger droplets tend to …

Extraction of droplet genealogies from high-fidelity atomization simulations

C Rubel, M Owkes - Atomization and Sprays, 2019 - dl.begellhouse.com
Many research groups are performing high-fidelity simulations of atomizing jets that are
taking advantage of the continually increasing speed and size of computational resources …

Stochastic models in the under-resolved simulations of spray formation during high-speed liquid injection

SK Oruganti, MA Gorokhovski - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
In the under-resolved simulation of the high-speed liquid injection into stagnant air, the
attention in subgrid-scale models is focused on events of intense gradients of the velocity in …

Application of computer vision techniques to identify spray primary breakup structures in high-speed flow

RK Pathan, WL Lim, SL Lau, CC Ho… - 2023 IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate analysis of the spray formation process is of utmost importance because it governs
the fuel injector performance in air-breathing engines. Historically, optical diagnostic …