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JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 24, Issue 7, Pages 1491-1499Publisher
KOREAN SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
DOI: 10.1007/s12206-010-0417-1
Keywords
Atomization; High pressure diesel spray; Kelvin-Helmholtz and Rayleigh-Taylor hybrid breakup model; Spray tip penetration
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- CEFV (Center for Environmentally Friendly Vehicle) of the MOE (Ministry of the Environment in Seoul, Republic of Korea)
- manpower development program for Energy Resources
- ministry of knowledge and economy (MKE)
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The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of the fuel temperature and the ambient gas temperature on the overall spray characteristics. Also, based on the experimental results, a numerical study is performed at more detailed and critical conditions in a high pressure diesel spray using a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code (AVL, FIRE ver. 2008). Spray tip penetration and spray cone angle are experimentally measured from spray images obtained using a spray visualization system composed of a high speed camera and fuel supply system. To calculate and predict the high pressure diesel spray behavior and atomization characteristics, a hybrid breakup model combining KH (Kelvin-Helmholtz) and RT (Rayleigh-Taylor) breakup theories is used. It was found that an increase in fuel temperature induces a decrease in spray tip penetration due to a reduction in the spray momentum. The increase of the ambient gas temperature causes the increase of the spray tip penetration, and the reduction of the spray cone angle. In calculation, when the ambient gas temperature increases above the boiling point, the overall SMD shows the increasing trend. Above the boiling temperature, the diesel droplets rapidly evaporate immediately after the injection from calculation results. From results and discussions, the KH-RT hybrid breakup model well describes the effects of the fuel temperature and ambient gas temperature on the overall spray characteristics, although there is a partial difference between the experimental and the calculation results of the spray tip penetration by the secondary breakup model.
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