摘要
Spray evaporation of liquid fuels in a turbulent flow is a common process in various engineering applications such as combustion.Interactions between fuel droplets(discrete phase)and fluid flow(continuous phase)have a considerable effect on liquid fuel evaporation.In this paper,both the single-and two-phase modeling of liquid fuel injection into a model evaporating chamber are presented.The influences of important issues such as turbulence models,coupling between gas phase and droplets,secondary break-up and air swirling on the current spray simulation are investigated.Accordingly,the shear stress transport turbulence model,Taylor analogy break-up and two-way coupling models are applied to simulate the two-phase flow.Atomization and spray of fuel droplets in hot air are modeled employing an Eulerian-Lagrangian approach.The current results show an acceptable agreement with the experiments.Adjacent the fuel atomizer,bigger droplets are detected near the spray edge and minor droplets are situated in the middle.With increasing the droplets axial position,the droplets diameter decreases with a finite slope.The smaller droplets have a deeper penetration,but their lifetime is smaller and they evaporate sooner.A linear relation between penetration and lifetime of smaller droplets is detected.Maximum droplet penetration and mean axial velocity of gas phase are observed for no air swirling case.The effect of variation of swirl number on the lifetime of droplets is almost negligible.By enhancing the swirl number,the uniformity of droplet size distribution is reduced and some large droplets are formed up in the domain.
