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Atomization and Sprays

Journal of the International Institutes for Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems

ISSN for PRINT: 1045-5110

Institutional price:	$787.00
Issues per year:	8

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2002, Volume12

240 pages

DOI: 10.1615/AtomizSpr.v12.i56

Issue price - $150.00

SPRAY MODELING USING LAGRANGIAN DROPLET TRACKING IN A HOMOGENEOUS FLOW MODEL

T. L. Pham
School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Steve D. Heister
School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

ABSTRACT

A model has been developed to provide tracking of individual droplets undergoing basic atomization processes including both collisions and secondary atomization. A subset of the complete spray is modeled via a pseudo-axisymmetric approximation. Fluid dynamics and coupling with the gas phase are treated via solution of the Navier-Stokes equations under the homogeneous fluid assumption. Sample results are presented for both steady and unsteady injection events.