Evaporation of a droplet larger than the Kolmogorov length scale immersed in a relative mean flow |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Laboratory of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (LMTA), Graduate Program in Mechanical Engineering (PGMEC), Mechanical Engineering Department, Universidade Federal Fluminense - UFF, Rua Passo da Pátria, 156, Bloco E, Sala 216, Niterói, RJ 24210-240, Brazil;2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro - PUC-Rio, R. Marquês de São Vicente 225, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 22451-900, Brazil;1. National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Institute of Power Engineering, 30, Lenin Avenue, Tomsk, 634050, Russia;2. Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50, avenue F.D. Roosevelt, Brussels, 1050, Belgium |
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| Abstract: | An experimental effort to understand the contribution of turbulence to the evaporation rate of fuel droplets has been performed with particular attention to conditions when the turbulence scale is smaller than the droplet diameter. N-heptane has been chosen as working fluid to give measurable evaporation rates from droplet images over relatively short experiment times. An active turbulence grid wind tunnel is built for the requirements of this experiment. A camera triggered by a pulse generator takes images of the droplets pinned on wires across the tunnel. The results show a small increase in evaporation rate with increasing turbulence intensity, and that mean flow around the droplets has more impact on evaporation than does the turbulence state. |
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