燃油粒度对两相PDE爆震波速的影响

两相爆震燃烧的研究近来取得了较大的进步,但是仍有很多问题需要解决,诸如燃油的喷射、雾化和蒸发,燃油和氧化剂的混合,两相可爆混合物的短距离起爆等等．本文利用激光喷雾粒度分析仪分别就直射喷嘴与气动喷嘴研究了汽油的雾化情况,随着汽油流量的增加,两种喷嘴的雾化变化趋势相反．结合汽油、空气PDE模型机多循环爆震试验,发现汽油的粒度对模型机的爆震波速有较大的影响,粒度减小,波速增大,同时波速具有循环效应．     

Visualization of two phase flow inside an effervescent atomizer

Effervescent atomization is one of the twin-fluid atomization methods while it has better performance in terms of smaller drop sizes and/or lower injection pressures. In order to investigate the effects of the internal flow patterns on droplet characteristics, a new kind of effervescent atomizer was designed and manufactured. The bubble forming process was visualized with a high-speed camera, while the droplet size was characterized with a LDV/PDA system. The experimental results show that there are three regimes of the two-phase flows inside the discharge orifice, one is bubbly flow, another is annular flow while the other is the intermittent flow. The flow patterns transfered from bubbly flow to intermittent flow and then to annular flow with decreasing of the water flow rate. In addition, with increasing of the working pressure or decreasing of the water flow rate, the SMD (Sauter mean diameter) of the droplets decreased and the axial mean velocity increased.     

一种新型喷嘴的提出及流量特性的研究

本文在对各种气动喷嘴及其雾化机理分析基础上提出了一种新型的气动雾化喷嘴-"旋转型气-液雾化喷嘴"。在此喷嘴中,油与气分别从不同的槽道切向进入混合室,且油与气一一对应,油与气互相混合、旋转后从喷口喷出。其气液比在热态实验时为4%-6%(用压缩空气雾化),雾化状态良好。本文中对其流量系数及雾化角进行了系统的研究。主要考虑了喷嘴的结构参数,气液比(ALR),液体粘度等因素对流量系数的影响。通过实验测量与拟合,最后得到了喷嘴的流量系数和雾化角的表达式,可以用来指导喷嘴的设计。     

Design and Performance of an Ultrasonic Atomization System for experimental combustion applications

Although common atomizing systems efficiently produce sprays, a range of droplet sizes is generally obtained and the distribution is often difficult to control in terms of liquid or gaseous flow rates. It is shown that an alternative system, based on ultrasonic surface instabilities, is well suited for experimental applications where all parameters have to be controlled. Technological aspects of ultrasonic atomization are described and the droplet spray produced by an ultrasonic atomizer is characterized experimentally.     

Investigations into ultrasound induced atomization

The present work deals with measurements of the droplet size distribution in an ultrasonic atomizer using photographic analysis with an objective of understanding the effect of different equipment parameters such as the operating frequency, power dissipation and the operating parameters such as the flow rate and liquid properties on the droplet size distribution. Mechanistic details about the atomization phenomena have also been established using photographic analysis based on the capture of the growth of the instability and sudden ejection of droplets with high velocity. Velocity of these droplets has been measured by capturing the motion of droplets as streaks. It has been observed that the droplet size decreases with an increase in the frequency of atomizer. Droplet size distribution was found to change from the narrow to wider range with an increase in the intensity of ultrasound. The drop size was found to decrease with an increase in the fluid viscosity. The current work has clearly highlighted the approach for the selection of operating parameters for achieving a desired droplet size distribution using ultrasonic atomization and has also established the controlling mechanisms for the formation of droplet. An empirical correlation for the prediction of the droplet size has been developed based on the liquid and equipment operating properties.     

Ultrasonic atomization: effect of liquid phase properties

Experiments have been conducted to understand the mechanism by which the ultrasonic vibration at the gas liquid interface causes the atomization of liquid. For this purpose, aqueous solutions having different viscosities and liquids showing Newtonian (aqueous solution of glycerin) and non-Newtonian behavior (aqueous solution of sodium salt of carboxy methyl cellulose) were employed. It has been found that the average droplet size produced by the pseudo-plastic liquid is less than that produced by the viscous Newtonian liquid having viscosity equal to zero-shear rate viscosity of the shear thinning liquid. The droplet size was found to increase initially with an increase in the viscosity up to a certain threshold viscosity after which the droplet size was found to decrease again. Also droplet size distribution is found to be more compact (uniform sizes) with an increasing viscosity of the atomizing liquid. The presence of the cavitation and its effect on the atomization has been semi quantitatively confirmed using energy balance and by the measurement of the droplet ejection velocities and validated on the basis of the decomposition of the aqueous KI solution. A correlation has been proposed for the prediction of droplet size for aqueous Newtonian fluids and fluids showing non-Newtonian behavior based on the dimensionless numbers incorporating the operating parameters of the ultrasonic atomizer and the liquid phase physico-chemical properties.     

Effects of fuel viscosity on the primary breakup dynamics of a high-speed liquid jet with comparison to X-ray radiography

One of the major concerns in combustion engines is the sensitivity of engine performance to fuel properties. Recent works have shown that even slight differences in fuel properties can cause significant changes in performance and emission of an engine. In order to design the combustion engines with multi-fuel flexibilities, the precise assessment of fuel sensitivity on liquid jet atomization process is a prerequisite since the resulting fuel/air mixture is critical to the subsequent combustion process. The present study is focusing on the effect of physical fuel properties, mostly viscosity difference, on the breakup process of the liquid jet injected into still air. Two different jet fuels, CAT-A2 and CAT-C3, are considered here as surrogates for a fossil-based fuel and a bio-derived high-viscosity alternative fuel. The simulations are performed using the volume-of-fluid (VoF) interface tracking method coupled to Lagrangian particle method in order to capture the breakup instabilities of jets and the resulting droplets. The investigations take the actual geometry of the injector into account to resolve the unsteady flow phenomena inside the nozzle that impact the turbulence transition and atomization. The simulation results are compared to the experimental measurement using X-ray radiography. Both simulation and X-ray measurements consistently describe the effects of different fuels on the fundamental properties of atomization including the breakup length, transverse liquid volume fraction and the droplet sauter-mean-diameter. The application of a Detailed Numerical Simulation approach complemented by unique X-ray diagnostics is novel and providing new understanding and research directions in engine spray dynamics.     

新型三组元喷嘴雾化特性研究

设计了新型三组元喷嘴,由两级离心内喷嘴和内混式外喷嘴装配为同轴式结构,通过燃料在内混腔里形成的两相流对液氧进行雾化。试验结果表明,上排孔进氧的双组元工况雾化质量高;三组元工况时存在两种雾化机理,并有较高雾化质量。     

电热原子吸收光谱法中原子化过程动力学研究的最新进展

本文评述了1994－2000年年间电热原子吸收光谱法中原子化过程动力学研究的最新进展,内容包括升温原子化过程动力学参数测定方法、等温原子化过程动力学参数测定方法、动力学参数测定方法的比较、双先导物升温原子化过程的动力学模型、考虑原子蒸气再沉积过程的升温原子化过程的动力学模型以及原子化器表面、基体改进剂及干扰物对分析物原子化过程的影响。引用文献31篇。     

Application of the Maximum Entropy Formalism on Sprays Produced by Ultrasonic Atomizers

A recent application of the Maximum Entropy Formalism on liquid atomization problems led to the development of a mathematical volume‐based drop‐size distribution. This function, which depends on three parameters, is a reduction of the four‐parameter generalized Gamma function. The aim of the present work is to investigate the relevance of the three parameters in the characterization of liquid atomization processes. To achieve this, a variety of experimental drop‐size distributions of ultrasonic sprays were analyzed with the mathematical function. Firstly, it is found that the mathematical drop‐size distribution is very suitable to represent the volume‐based drop‐size distribution of ultrasonic sprays. Furthermore, it is seen that when considering the three parameters introduced by the function, one of them is constant for all the situations investigated, and the other two are linked to a non‐dimensional group that includes the main parameters controlling the drop production. These results are very important, since they suggest a possible development of physical models of primary atomization based on the M.E.F., which would allow for the prediction of the spray drop‐size distribution. Thusfar, such a model does not exist.     

Electrical and transient atomization characteristics of a pulsed charge injection atomizer using electrically insulating liquids

Charge injection atomizers are energy efficient devices that can be used in order to promote the atomization of dielectric liquids, and a potential application of such devices is fine spray delivery in small internal combustion engines. The operation of a pulsed charge injection atomization system operating at practical engine frequencies under a high voltage pulse train has not been well recorded in the literature. This initial investigation defines the electrical and transient global atomization performance of a charge injection atomizer operating under a steady flow regime, but with a typical high voltage pulse train. Results show that voltage-current characteristics follow similar trends to that of a steady flow, steady voltage system, and observation of the data also reveals that output current waveforms depend on the input pulse train frequency. No degradation in charging efficiency was observed at higher frequencies, which suggests that a charge injection atomizer can operate efficiently at practical engine speeds. Photographs also confirmed the high voltage pulse train injects charge that produces sections of primary atomization on the continuous liquid jet.     

Microbial content of aerosols produced from suspensions exposed to megahertz frequency ultrasound

A piezo-electric bowl transducer was used to generate aerosols by focusing ultrasound in the frequency range 1–7 MHz at a liquid/air interface. Atomization at the liquid surface and the production of a fountain contributed to aerosol formation. When the liquid consisted of suspensions of representatives from the viral, bacterial, and yeast groups of micro-organisms (covering a 0.2–11.5 μm size range) living organisms were isolated from the aerosols at all frequencies. The fountains were implicated as a major source of air-borne micro-organisms because significant numbers of isolates were obtained in the presence of fountains but in the absence of obvious atomization, and theoretical predictions make the sizes of droplets arising from atomization at the higher frequencies too small to have carried some of the larger organisms.     

Interaction of Annular Air Jet with a Non-Evaporating Liquid Spray

The effects of a concentric annular air jet on the structure of a liquid spray have been examined under isothermal conditions using Phase Doppler interferometry, and flow visualization techniques. Local measurements of drop size, velocity, volume flux, and number density have been made simultaneously and non-intrusively. The results show that the initial spray cone widens substantially with increasing air flow while the overall spray envelope remains essentially the same. The air jet creates a narrow high mass flux region of small droplets in the core of the spray, surrounded by a nearly uniform flux region extending almost to the boundary of the spray. Line averaged mean diameters are found to be slightly smaller, indicating that the annular air jet plays a role improving the atomization process as well.     

Feasibility of “intermittent” active control of combustion instabilities in liquid fueled combustors using a “smart” fuel injector

This paper describes an experimental investigation of the feasibility of an “intermittent” active control approach for suppressing combustion instabilities in liquid fueled combustors. The developed controller employs a “smart” fuel injector that can modify the spray properties in response to changes in combustor operating conditions. This action weakens or breaks up the coupling between the combustion process and combustor acoustic modes oscillations, thus preventing the excitation of large amplitude instabilities. This approach differs significantly from previously proposed active control methods, both in concept and implementation, as it requires only “intermittent” modification of the combustion process by a single control action as opposed to the continuous action required by most other active control methods. The “smart” fuel injector used in this study consisted of a double-staged, air-assisted atomizer in which counter swirling, primary (inner stage) and secondary (outer stage) air streams were supplied to the injector through separate sets of tangentially oriented orifices. Control of the ratio of air mass flow rates supplied to these two stages, by use of a diverter valve, resulted in significant changes in the spray shape and its axial, tangential, and radial velocity components. This variation in spray properties of the “smart” injector was characterized for different values of the inner to outer air flow rate ratio in cold flow tests with a PDPA system. These results were then correlated with the characteristics of the “intermittently” controlled combustor. Measured quantities included the instability amplitudes, axial dependence of the mean and oscillatory heat release amplitudes, and the characteristics of the recirculation zones, which were all shown to depend on the fuel spray properties. The results of this study demonstrate the feasibility of using “smart” fuel injectors with capabilities for varying the combustion process characteristics to reduce the amplitudes of detrimental combustion instabilities in real engines to acceptable levels.     

离心式喷嘴内气液两相流动的数值模拟

求解三维不可压NS方程,并应用VOF方法捕获气液分界面,计算不同压降下离心式喷嘴内的气液两相流动状况,研究了不同压降对喷嘴内流动的影响。计算很好地模拟了喷嘴内的气液两相流动,并得到了出口液膜速度、喷雾锥角以及液膜厚度等参数,数值计算所得结果同试验符合得较好,好于经验公式的结果。     

Interaction of shock waves with bubble-liquid drops

The regular reflection of an air shock wave from a spherical drop of a bubble liquid is studied. In the framework of an extended equilibrium model, the effect of the shock waves on single drops of various shapes and on drop ensembles (drop screens) is numerically investigated. It is shown that, when subjected to shock waves, bubble-liquid drops and drops of a bubble-free liquid collapse in a radically different way.     

On the Capability of the Generalized Gamma Function to Represent Spray Drop‐Size Distribution

The three‐parameter, Generalized Gamma function solution of a recent MEF formulation used to derive liquid spray drop‐size distribution, is applied to sprays resulting from three different atomization processes. The objectives of these applications are to determine the sign of the parameters for which this function reports a more reliable fit and to further understand the parameter stability problem reported elsewhere. It is found that the lack of stability of the parameters is related to a characteristic feature of the mathematical function and appears for a series of spray drop‐size distributions with constant shape. For each situation analyzed in the present study, the Generalized Gamma function provides a very good fit with parameters that are either constant or correlated to the working conditions. As far as the sign of the parameters is concerned, the results show that the best formulation is a function of the spray and that it is impossible to know, a priori, which parameter sign will report the best fit. Finally, for one situation, it is found that the Generalized Gamma function allows extrapolation of drop sizes outside the measured values. All of the results converge to conclude that the three‐parameter Generalized Gamma function, which is identical to the well‐known Nukiyama‐Tanasawa distribution, accumulates valuable attributes to represent liquid spray drop‐size distributions.     

Piezoelectric atomization of liquids with dynamic viscosities up to 175 cP at room temperature

Piezoelectric atomization has been applied in the field of respiratory medicine delivery and chemistry. However, the wider application of this technique is limited by the viscosity of the liquid. High-viscosity liquid atomization has great potential for applications in aerospace, medicine, solid-state batteries and engines, but the actual development of atomization is behind expectations. In this study, instead of the traditional model of single-dimensional vibration as a power supply, we propose a novel atomization mechanism that uses two coupled vibrations to induce micro-amplitude elliptical motion of the particles on the surface of the liquid carrier, which produces a similar effect as localized traveling waves to push the liquid forward and induce cavitation to achieve atomization. To achieve this, a flow tube internal cavitation atomizer (FTICA) consisting of a vibration source, a connecting block and a liquid carrier is designed. The prototype can atomize liquids with dynamic viscosities up to 175 cP at room temperature with a driving frequency of 507 kHz and a voltage of 85 V. The maximum atomization rate in the experiment is 56.35 mg/min, and the average atomized particle diameter is 10 µm. Vibration models for the three parts of the proposed FTICA are established, and the vibration characteristics and atomization mechanism of the prototype were verified using the vibration displacement measurement experiment and the spectroscopic experiment. This study offers new possibilities for transpulmonary inhalation therapy, engine fuel supply, solid-state battery processing and other areas where high-viscosity microparticle atomization is needed.     

Basic Studies of Electrohydrodynamic Atomization Process using phase Doppler measurement technique

A planar phase Doppler system is used to measure submicron droplets generated by an electrospray. Measured drop dia-meters are correlated with the liquid properties and the condition for transition of the spray from the single-jet mode to the multi-jet mode is introduced. In another set of measurements using a standard phase Doppler system, combined size and velocity data are employed to deduce the drag force on the drops. In a situation where the drag force is balanced primarily by the electric force, the phase Doppler measurements allow to estimate the power-law relationship between the charge on a drop and its diameter and hence, many provide insights into the underlying atomization mechanisms.