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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

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1997, Volume7

126 pages

Issue price - $75.00

METHODS AND TOOLS FOR ADVANCED FUEL SPRAY PRODUCTION AND INVESTIGATION

Gunter Brenn
Lehrstuhl für Strömungsmechanik, Universitat Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany

Franz Durst
Lehrstuhl für Strömungsmechanik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Cauerstrasse 4, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany

D. Trimis
Institute of Heat Engineering and Thermodynamics, D-09596 Freiberg, Germany; and Institute of Fluid Mechanics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Cauerstr. 4, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany

M. Weclas
LSTM Erlangen, Lehrstuhl für Strömungsmechanik, Universitat Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany

ABSTRACT

Advancements in fuel spray injection systems for internal combustion engines and other fuel combusting systems require new tools and methods to produce sprays, to study their properties, and to quantify details such as local droplet size, droplet velocities, droplet concentration, and droplet temperature. Direct quantities, on which spray formation depends, need to be measured, rather than quantities on which an indirect dependence exists.
At the Institute of Fluid Mechanics of the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, research and development work has been carried out on spray systems, yielding new methods, tools, and instruments to produce and study sprays. A summary of this work is given in this article, providing information on:

In this article, the development work is summarized and applications of the measuring techniques are demonstrated. Demonstrations of the developments mentioned above are also provided, and applications to multihole injection systems permitting controlled production of sprays are described.