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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTIPHASE FLOW
Volume 156, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2022.104195
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Atomization; Compressible flow; Transonic; Liquid jet in supersonic crossflow; Primary breakup; Equivalent path length
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This study investigates a parametric study of a pure liquid jet in supersonic crossflow using computational schemes. The simulations are validated against experimental results and the effect of numerical resolution on flow behavior is analyzed. The study reveals that increasing the flowrate leads to a further penetration and dispersion of the spray, but has little effect on the droplet size distribution.
Utilizing recent advancements in computational schemes for compressible, multiphase flows, this work features a parametric study of a pure liquid jet in supersonic crossflow that involves simulating the atomization process for four values of momentum-flux ratio. These simulations are validated against experimental results measured with high-speed X-ray imaging, which confirm the accuracy of the numerical approach. Also, the effect of numerical resolution on some flow behavior is investigated, revealing convergence of the jet shape and surface instability wavelength. Analysis of the resulting sprays includes statistical descriptions of the liquid distribution, liquid structures created through breakup, interfacial instabilities, and dominant flow features. As the flowrate increases, the spray penetrates further, it becomes more disperse, and less liquid impacts the wall, but the droplet size distribution changes little. The wavelength of instabilities on the windward side of the jet diverges from measured trends in subsonic crossflows. In a visualization of the time-averaged flow, counter-rotating vortices are observed along the jet core and in the wake, affecting the process of primary atomization and early droplet trajectories.
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