Progress in experimental investigations on evaporation characteristics of a fuel droplet

Z Wang, B Yuan, Y Huang, J Cao, Y Wang… - Fuel Processing …, 2022 - Elsevier
Investigating the evaporation characteristics of a fuel droplet is critical for understanding
spray and combustion processes, which provides valuable information and guidance for …

A comprehensive review on the atomization and spray characteristics of renewable biofuels

KS Mehra, J Pal, V Goel - Sustainable Energy Technologies and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to sustainability, rising energy demands, environmental concerns and energy security
issues, scientists and researchers around the world are studying renewable biofuels as an …

Heating and evaporation of suspended water droplets: Experimental studies and modelling

PA Strizhak, RS Volkov, G Castanet, F Lemoine… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
The results of a series of experiments focused on investigation of the heating and
evaporation of suspended water droplets in a hot air flow (at temperatures up to 800° C) are …

Breakup and explosion of droplets of two immiscible fluids and emulsions

DV Antonov, MV Piskunov, PA Strizhak - International Journal of Thermal …, 2019 - Elsevier
The explosive breakup of liquid, emulsion, and slurry droplets enables a several-fold
increase of their evaporation surface area. This effect reduces the energy and time required …

Turbulent combustion modelling and experiments: Recent trends and developments

A Giusti, E Mastorakos - Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 2019 - Springer
The development of better laser-based experimental methods and the fast rise in computer
power has created an unprecedented shift in turbulent combustion research. The range of …

A dynamical overview of droplets in the transmission of respiratory infectious diseases

M Zhou, J Zou - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The outbreak of the coronavirus disease has drawn public attention to the transmission of
infectious pathogens, and as major carriers of those pathogens, respiratory droplets play an …

Planar laser-induced fluorescence diagnostics of water droplets heating and evaporation at high-temperature

RS Volkov, PA Strizhak - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
Gas-steam-droplet technologies are widely used in systems operating at high temperatures
ranging between 400 and 2000° C, namely: fire-fighting systems, thermal fluid cleaning, fuel …

Phase transitions of multi-component fuel droplets under sub-and supercritical conditions

Y Gong, G Xiao, X Ma, KH Luo, S Shuai, H Xu - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
For a multi-component hydrocarbon mixture under supercritical conditions, the mechanism
and criterion for the transition of the dominant mixing mode from evaporation to diffusion are …

Unsteady temperature fields of evaporating water droplets exposed to conductive, convective and radiative heating

GV Kuznetsov, MV Piskunov, RS Volkov… - Applied Thermal …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present the rates and typical durations of high-temperature heating and
evaporation of water droplets determined for the dominating conductive, convective or …

Spray cooling system design and optimization for cooling performance enhancement of natural draft dry cooling tower in concentrated solar power plants

Y Sun, Z Guan, H Gurgenci, J Wang, P Dong… - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
In concentrated solar power (CSP) plants built in dry and arid areas, natural draft dry cooling
tower (NDDCT) are commonly employed to dissipate waste heat into the atmosphere. The …