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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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2007, Volume17

94 pages

Issue price - $109.00

A STUDY OF THE FLOW AND ATOMIZATION CHARACTERISTICS OF IMPINGED DIESEL SPRAY ON A CHAMBER WALL

Hyun Kyu Suh
Graduate School of Hanyang University, 17 Haengdang-dong, Sungdong-gu, Seoul 133-791, Korea

Sung Wook Park
Graduate School of Hanyang University, 17 Haengdang-dong, Sungdong-gu, Seoul 133-791, Korea

Chang Sik Lee
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang University, 17 Haengdang-dong, Sungdong-gu, Seoul 133-791, Korea

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to investigate the flow and atomization characteristics of an impinged spray on the wall of a chamber with a high-speed diesel spray injected from a common-rail system under various experimental conditions. The flow characteristics of the impinged spray were visualized and the droplet velocity distributions were obtained using a particle image velocimetry (PIV) system. The atomization characteristics of an impinged spray on the wall were investigated in terms of mean droplet size and radial mean velocity at various injection and wall parameters such as injection pressure, ambient pressure, the nozzle-wall distance, and the inclined angle of the wall. Additionally, the velocity distributions from the PIV system were compared with the measured results of the phase Doppler particle analyzer (PDPA) system. It is revealed that the radial spray penetration and the flow field on the impinged wall increase with the increase of the injection pressure and inclined angle of the wall. Comparison results of radial velocity on the impinged spray between PIV and PDPA show that the maximum value of radial velocity is similar. The distributions of SMDs under various experimental conditions show that atomization characteristics are affected by high-momentum droplets. The increases of injection pressure and nozzle-wall distance cause the decrease of droplet diameter, and measured droplet diameters are mostly under 25 μm.