Journal
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
Volume 13, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app13095752
Keywords
PODEn; droplet combustion; internal flow field; micro-PIV; mass transfer
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The internal flow fields in the binary droplet combustion of two polyoxymethylene dimethyl ethers (PODEn) are characterized using micro-particle image velocimetry (Micro-PIV). The upward vapor flow around the droplet initiates two radial flows, forming vortex cores near the surface. The content and temperature gradients in the binary droplets induce disturbance to the flows. Evaluation: 8 points.
Droplet internal flow participates in liquid-phase mass transfer during multicomponent solution droplet combustion. In this work, internal flow fields in the binary droplet combustion of two polyoxymethylene dimethyl ethers (CH3O(CH2O)(n)CH3, n >= 1, abbreviated as PODEn), i.e., PODE2 and PODE4, are characterized using micro-particle image velocimetry (Micro-PIV). The buoyancy-driven upward vapor flow around the droplet is found to initiate two opposite radial flows in the droplet, which form two vortex cores near the surface, while the gravitational effect and Marangoni effect resulting from the content and temperature gradients in the binary droplets can induce disturbance to the two flows. The binary droplets have comparable spatially averaged flow velocities at the stable evaporation stage to those of pure droplets, which are around 3 mm/s. The velocity curves are more fluctuant and tend to slightly increase and reach the peak values at around 250 ms, and then decrease until droplet atomization. The flow velocities in the droplet interior are generally higher than those near the droplet surface, forming a parabolic velocity profile along the horizontal radial direction. The peak velocity first increases to 5-9 mm/s as the radial flow and vortex structure start to form and then decreases to around 3 mm/s until droplet atomization. The radial flow with a spatially averaged velocity of 3 mm/s can run around one lap during the stable evaporation stage, which implies that the convection-induced mass transfer is relatively weak, and consequently, the content gradient of the binary droplet is still mainly controlled by mass diffusion.
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