An Evaluation of a Two-Fluid Eulerian-Liquid Eulerian-Gas Model for Diesel Sprays
- 1 July 2003
- journal article
- Published by ASME International in Journal of Fluids Engineering
- Vol. 125 (4), 660-669
- https://doi.org/10.1115/1.1593708
Abstract
A two fluid Eulerian-liquid Eulerian-gas (ELEG) model for diesel sprays is developed. It is employed to carry out computations for diesel sprays under a wide range of ambient and injection conditions. Computed and measured results are compared to assess the accuracy of the model in the far field, i.e., at axial distances greater than 300 orifice diameters, and in the near field, i.e., at axial distances less than 100 orifice diameters. In the far field, the comparisons are of drop mean velocities and drop fluctuation velocities and in the near field they are of entrainment velocities and entrainment constants. Adequate agreement is obtained quantitatively, within 30 percent, and qualitatively as parameters are changed. Unlike in traditional Lagrangian-drop Eulerian-fluid (LDEF) approaches that are employed for diesel spray computations, adequate resolution can be employed in the near field to achieve numerical grid independence when the two-fluid model is employed. A major source of uncertainty in the near field is in the modeling of liquid jet breakup and atomization.Keywords
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