Effect of elevated pressure on air-assisted primary atomization of coaxial liquid jets: Basic research for entrained flow gasification

F Zhang, T Zirwes, T Müller, S Wachter, T Jakobs… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2020 - Elsevier
Highly resolved numerical simulations have been conducted for a generic, coaxial air-blast
atomizer designed for fundamental research of entrained flow gasification processes …

Large scale instabilities in coaxial air-water jets with annular air swirl

A Kumar, S Sahu - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The aim of this paper is to characterize large-scale instabilities during the primary breakup
process in liquid centered coaxial air-water jets. The interest here is to investigate the role of …

Liquid jet disintegration memory effect on downstream spray fluctuations in a coaxial twin-fluid injector

A Kumar, S Sahu - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
This paper intends to investigate the influence of unsteadiness in the liquid jet disintegration
process on downstream fluctuations of spray characteristics in a coaxial twin-fluid injector …

Influence of nozzle geometry on primary and large-scale instabilities in coaxial injectors

A Kumar, S Sahu - Chemical Engineering Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Detailed knowledge on liquid jet instabilities is important to improve the performance of
coaxial injectors, which find wide range of industrial applications. The present paper aims to …

Influence of steady and oscillating swirl on the near-field spray characteristics in a two-fluid coaxial atomizer

N Machicoane, G Ricard, R Osuna-Orozco… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The mechanisms of interfacial instability due to gas-liquid shear and liquid ligament
acceleration that occurs in the near-field of a coaxial two-fluid atomizer play a determining …

[HTML][HTML] High-speed imaging database of water jet disintegration Part II: Temporal analysis of the primary breakup

S Rezayat, M Farshchi, E Berrocal - International Journal of Multiphase …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper is Part II of a series of articles focusing on the disintegration of a cylindrical (Ø=
0.60 mm diameter) water jet in a quiescent atmosphere, from Rayleigh to early atomization …

Experimental investigation on the influence of system pressure on resulting spray quality and jet breakup applying pressure adapted twin-fluid nozzles

S Wachter, T Jakobs, T Kolb - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2020 - Elsevier
The present work aims for the isolated investigation of the influence of system pressure on
spray quality of twin-fluid atomizers. An approach of pressure adapted nozzles was applied …

The shattering of abrupt shear thickening suspension jet in an air-blast atomizer

ZY Wang, H Zhao, WF Li, JL Xu, HF Liu - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The primary breakup process of shear thickening is observed via high-speed photography. It
is indicated that discontinuous shear thickening (DST) suspension jets exhibit the unique …

Experimental investigation into flow blurring atomization

R Murugan, PS Kolhe - Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 2021 - Elsevier
The twin-fluid atomizer employing the cross-stream mixing arrangement for air and liquid
prior to the orifice exit is investigated with a scaled-up size transparent injector. Simplistic …

Influence of air swirl orientation on the spray characteristics of a micro-channel-based rotary (MCR) atomizer

A Kumar, S Sahu, T Sundararajan - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, we investigate the atomization and spray characteristics of a novel rotary
atomizer with micro-channel grooves, using optical diagnostics. Micro-jets emanate from the …