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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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1995, Volume5

121 pages

Issue price - $75.00

COMPARISONS BETWEEN EXPERIMENTS AND PREDICTIONS BASED ON MAXIMUM ENTROPY FOR THE BREAKUP OF A CYLINDRICAL LIQUID JET

L. P. Chin
Systems Research Laboratories, Inc.

P. C. Hsing
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

R. S. Tankin
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

T. Jackson
Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, USA

ABSTRACT

A motion analyzer was used to measure the size and velocity distributions of droplets generated by the disintegration of a cylindrical liquid jet. The breakup of the liquid jet under consideration contains satellite droplets interspersed among the primary droplets, thus resulting in a bimodal distribution in size. The integrated velocity distribution of droplets is not Gaussian. The maximum entropy principle is used to model this phenomenon. Agreement between the model and the measurements is reasonably good.