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Title: Numerical modelling of direct-injection gasoline fuel sprays
Author: Abdelkarim, Nazar B. H.
ISNI:       0000 0001 3389 6446
Awarding Body: Loughborough University
Current Institution: Loughborough University
Date of Award: 2005
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This thesis presents a numerical study of the break-up and atomisation of gasoline fuel sprays injected into atmospheric flow conditions and environments related to combustion chamber conditions. Calculations of the fuel break-up process were achieved by four different models: Taylor Analogy Break-up (TAB), the wave instability theory (WAVE), the Hybrid Sheet-TAB and the Hybrid WAVE-FIPA models. The TAB model relates the break-up process to the droplet oscillations; whereas the WAVE models calculate the fuel break-up from the unstable waves on the droplet surface. The modified version of the TAB model, called the Hybrid Sheet-TAB model delays the start of the break-up further downstream from the nozzle tip. A new hybrid model, the WAVE-FIPA model, divides the spray atomisation processes into a primary stage, where the WAVE model is used, and a secondary stage, which is simulated using experimental correlations to calculate the break-up time for the low Weber number droplets.
Supervisor: Not available Sponsor: Not available
Qualification Name: Thesis (Ph.D.) Qualification Level: Doctoral
EThOS ID: uk.bl.ethos.419823  DOI: Not available
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