Publicado 6 números por año
ISSN Imprimir: 2150-766X
ISSN En Línea: 2150-7678
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RECENT THEORETICAL ADVANCES FOR LIQUID-FUEL ATOMIZATION AND BURNING
SINOPSIS
Three modern topics of major importance in the use of liquid fuels for chemical propulsion will be reviewed: atomization of injected streams of liquids, vaporization and burning of large arrays of fuel droplets, and liquid-fuel-film vaporization and burning. The emphasis will be on theoretical developments although some experimental results will be cited. The roles of cavitation and hydrodynamic instability in liquid break-up processes will be analyzed. A new method for treating large numbers of interacting, vaporizing, and burning fuel droplets will be discussed for both unitary and non-unitary Lewis-number cases. The physics of liquid-film vaporization and burning, a new and exciting candidate for use in the miniaturization of combustors, will be analyzed.