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Studies on fuel spray characteristics in high-pressure environmentThe present study deals with several issues involving the improvement of physical submodels and the computational efficiency in modeling dense fuel sprays. To improve the computational efficiency, a parcel PDF approach is implemented which can account for turbulent dispersion within each computational parcel. The advantage of a parcel PDF tracking method is to reduce the number of computational parcels representing the spray dynamics as well as to obtain grid-independent solutions for two-phase flows. To account for the dense spray effects, an existing drop collision and coalescence model, two breakup models, and a Reitz's wave instability model were used. These models were incorporated into a state-of-the-art multiphase all-speed transient flow solution procedure. Comparative performance for two breakup models as well as the turbulence modulation effects are also studied. Validation cases include the nonevaporating and evaporating solid-cone dense sprays. The predictions show a reasonably good agreement with available experimental results in terms of spray penetration, drop sizes, gas and drop mean velocities, and gas and drop rms velocities. The numerical results indicate that the present parcel PDF model has the capability of accurately representing drop dispersion in dense sprays with manageable number of computational parcels.
Document ID
19920066211
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Shang, H. M.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Kim, Y. M.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Chen, C. P.
(Alabama, University Huntsville, United States)
Wang, T. S.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Date Acquired
August 15, 2013
Publication Date
July 1, 1992
Subject Category
Fluid Mechanics And Heat Transfer
Report/Patent Number
AIAA PAPER 92-3234
Accession Number
92A48835
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS8-38609
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS8-36955
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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