Numerical investigation on performance of moisture separator: Experimental validation, applications and new findings

H Zhang, Q Liu - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
The applications of numerical simulation can provide detailed information about the droplet
behaviors that is useful to study the performance of the system of Moisture Separator (MS) …

Experimental study of miscibility of liquids in binary droplet collisions

PP Tkachenko, NE Shlegel, RS Volkov… - … Research and Design, 2021 - Elsevier
The paper presents experimental research findings on binary collisions of droplets of water,
glycerol and surfactant solutions containing fluorophore and a dye to record the position and …

Unsteady convective flow of a preheated water-in-oil emulsion droplet impinging on a heated wall

M Piskunov, N Khomutov, A Semyonova… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
This work proposes a mechanism of deformation of an emulsion droplet upon collision with
a wall, considering the vortex motion of a liquid inside the droplet. This motion leads to an …

The collision of immiscible droplets in three-phase liquid systems: A numerical study using phase-field lattice Boltzmann method

A Ebadi, SM Hosseinalipour - Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 2022 - Elsevier
A ternary phase-field LB model was employed in this paper to study the collision between
two immiscible liquid droplets in a continuous liquid medium. Five different cases were …

Secondary atomization of gas-saturated liquid droplets as a result of their collisions and micro-explosion

DV Antonov, NE Shlegel, PA Strizhak - Chemical Engineering Research …, 2020 - Elsevier
The paper presents the experimental research findings for secondary atomization of gas-
saturated (filled with CO 2 bubbles) water droplets. Experiments were also conducted with …

The effect of ethylene glycol concentration on the interfacial dynamics of the successive droplets impacting onto a horizontal hot solid surface

T Wibowo, A Widyatama, S Kamal - International Journal of Thermal …, 2021 - Elsevier
The present work aimed to conduct the visualization study on the effect of the ethylene glycol
concentration on the interfacial behavior of successive droplets during the impacting onto a …

Critical conditions leading to puffing and micro-explosion of composite liquid droplets

DV Antonov, OV Vysokomornaya, LS Yanovskiy… - … Communications in Heat …, 2024 - Elsevier
Primary atomization systems do not usually provide the droplet size small enough for
complete evaporation in a single process cycle. Secondary atomization of droplets resulting …

Droplet trajectories and collisions in gas forced vortexes: A molecular dynamics study

W Liu, N Li, Z Sun, Z Wang, Z Wang - Chemical Engineering Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Molecular dynamics simulations of droplets in gas forced vortexes by applying a virtual
rotational potential were presented. The result showed that the flow field scale of the …

The effect of impurities on water droplet collision regimes and behavior

SS Kropotova, PP Tkachenko, PA Strizhak - Microgravity Science and …, 2022 - Springer
In this paper we present the experimental research findings on droplet collision behavior of
water of different quality typically used in industrial process cycles. We explore the boundary …

Molecular Dynamics Study on Regimes of Head-on Droplet Collision

W Liu, N Li, Z Sun, Z Wang, Z Wang - Langmuir, 2021 - ACS Publications
The head-on collision of two water droplets with a diameter of 10 nm in an atmospheric
environment was investigated via molecular dynamics simulations. The gas molecules …