The Evaporation and Mixing of a Liquid Fuel Spray in a Diesel Air Swirl
- 1 September 1969
- journal article
- other
- Published by SAGE Publications in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Conference Proceedings
- Vol. 184 (10) , 171-180
- https://doi.org/10.1243/pime_conf_1969_184_330_02
Abstract
A theory has been developed to describe the evaporation and mixing of a liquid spray in a known gaseous flow field. A major departure from previous spray mixing work is the treatment of the detailed structure from a quasi-continuous medium basis rather than the traditional single-droplet approach, which does not take into account the interaction of the neighbouring droplets. The theory enables the centre-line of the spray, the evaporation, concentration, velocity, and density (hence, temperature) along the spray path, as well as the width of the mixing zone, to be calculated. The results of the analysis are compared with experimental data obtained from high-speed photography.Keywords
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