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Studies on the flame structure and drag of a combusting droplet group
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Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, China
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School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology, China
Submission date: 2022-12-16
Final revision date: 2023-01-30
Acceptance date: 2023-02-03
Online publication date: 2023-02-13
Publication date: 2023-06-14
Corresponding author
Combustion Engines 2023,193(2), 3-8
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ABSTRACT
Droplet combustion has been studied by experiments and numerical simulation for many years, and most of studies were done about single droplets. As for droplet groups, some theoretical and experimental studies were reported, but less of numerical studies. One of the important characteristics is the drag of combusting droplets, which is closely related to flame structure and is a sub-model in numerical simulation of spray combustion. There are contradictory research results for the drag of combusting droplets. In the present paper, large-eddy simulation (LES) is used to study the flame structure and drag of a combusting ethanol-droplet group. The results show that there are three combustion modes: fully-enveloped flame, partially-enveloped flame and wake flame in a droplet group, leading to the change of the drag with inlet velocities. It is found that the drag of droplets in the group is much smaller than that of a non-combusting particle in isothermal flows
FUNDING
This study was sponsored by the Key Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China under the Grant 51390493
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A review for some paradoxical studies on the drag of particles and droplets in combustion
Lixing Zhou
International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer
Lixing Zhou
International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer
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