Uncertainty quantification in particle image velocimetry

A Sciacchitano - Measurement Science and Technology, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Particle image velocimetry (PIV) has become the chief experimental technique for velocity
field measurements in fluid flows. The technique yields quantitative visualizations of the …

Advances in droplet aerobreakup

S Sharma, NK Chandra, S Basu, A Kumar - The European Physical …, 2023 - Springer
Secondary atomization of a liquid droplet can be achieved by subjecting it to a high-speed
gas stream. This is referred as the aerodynamic breakup, and is encountered in various …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting the effects of environmental parameters on the spatio-temporal distribution of the droplets carrying coronavirus in public transport–A machine …

M Mesgarpour, JMN Abad, R Alizadeh… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Human-generated droplets constitute the main route for the transmission of coronavirus.
However, the details of such transmission in enclosed environments are yet to be …

Droplet breakup in airflow with strong shear effect

Z Xu, T Wang, Z Che - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
The deformation and breakup of droplets in airflows is important in spray and atomisation
processes, but the shear effect in non-uniform airflow is rarely reported. In this study, the …

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 …

Active drag reduction of a high-drag Ahmed body based on steady blowing

BF Zhang, K Liu, Y Zhou, S To, JY Tu - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018 - cambridge.org
Active drag reduction of an Ahmed body with a slant angle of, based on the square root of
the model cross-sectional area. Four individual actuations, produced by steady blowing, are …

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 …

Liquid jet breakup unsteadiness in a coaxial air-blast atomizer

A Kumar, S Sahu - International journal of spray and …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The aim of this paper is to experimentally characterize the liquid jet breakup unsteadiness in
a coaxial air-blast atomizer. The current research focuses on the measurement of the …

An experimental investigation of droplet morphology in swirl flow

PK Kirar, SK Soni, PS Kolhe, KC Sahu - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
The interaction of a droplet with a swirling airstream is investigated experimentally using
shadowgraphy and particle image velocimetry techniques. In swirl flow, the droplet …

Droplet size distribution in a swirl airstream using in-line holography technique

SS Ade, PK Kirar, LD Chandrala… - Journal of Fluid …, 2023 - cambridge.org
We investigate the morphology and size distribution of satellite droplets resulting from the
interaction of a freely falling water droplet with a swirling airstream of different strengths by …