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ISSN Печать: 1940-2503
ISSN Онлайн: 1940-2554
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3D NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF THE EFFECT OF DROPLET INITIAL CONDITIONS ON THE EVAPORATION PROCESS
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A three-dimensional numerical model is developed to simulate the effect of a droplet's initial conditions on the vaporization process in a turbulent convective environment at ambient pressure and temperature higher than the standard conditions. A hydrocarbon (n-heptane) droplet with two different initial diameters, 0.1 mm and 1.5 mm, and initial temperatures, 253 K and 320 K, is examined. The droplet is exposed to turbulent stream of nitrogen with a mean velocity of 2 m/s, and turbulence intensity ranging between 0 and 60%. The ambient pressure and temperature range is between 0.5 MPa and 4 MPa and 324 K and 1350 K, respectively. The numerical model solves the complete set of time-dependent conservation equations of mass, momentum, energy, and species concentration in both the gas phase and liquid phase. The turbulence terms in the conservation momentum (RANS) equations of the gas phase are modeled by using the shear stress transport model. Variable thermophysical properties, gas and liquid phase transients, and radiation are all accounted for. Moreover, the effect of high pressure such as nonideal gas behavior, solubility of ambient gas into the droplet, and pressure dependence of gas- and liquid-phase thermophysical properties are also considered.
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Verwey Cameron, Birouk Madjid, Experimental investigation of the effect of droplet size on the vaporization process in ambient turbulence, Combustion and Flame, 182, 2017. Crossref