Liquid jet breakup regimes at supercritical pressures

Oefelein, Joseph C.; Dahms, Rainer Norbert Uwe

doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2015.07.004

Title: Liquid jet breakup regimes at supercritical pressures

Journal Article · Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Combustion and Flame

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2015.07.004· OSTI ID:1236241

Oefelein, Joseph C. ^[1]; Dahms, Rainer Norbert Uwe ^[1]

Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)

Previously, a theory has been presented that explains how discrete vapor–liquid interfaces become diminished at certain high-pressure conditions in a manner that leads to well known qualitative trends observed from imaging in a variety of experiments. Rather than surface tension forces, transport processes can dominate over relevant ranges of conditions. In this paper, this framework is now generalized to treat a wide range of fuel-oxidizer combinations in a manner consistent with theories of capillary flows and extended corresponding states theory. Different flow conditions and species-specific molecular properties are shown to produce distinct variations of interfacial structures and local free molecular paths. These variations are shown to occur over the operating ranges in a variety of propulsion and power systems. Despite these variations, the generalized analysis reveals that the envelope of flow conditions at which the transition from classical sprays to diffusion-dominated mixing occurs exhibits a characteristic shape for all liquid–gas combinations. As a result, for alkane-oxidizer mixtures, it explains that these conditions shift to higher pressure flow conditions with increasing carbon number and demonstrates that, instead of widely assumed classical spray atomization, diffusion-dominated mixing may occur under relevant high-pressure conditions in many modern devices.

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Research Organization:: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC04-94AL85000; AC04-94-AL85000

OSTI ID:: 1236241

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1247766

Report Number(s):: SAND-2015-5184J; 594591

Journal Information:: Combustion and Flame, Vol. 162, Issue 10; ISSN 0010-2180

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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