Unsteady solutions of the spray flamelet equations

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Main Authors: Huenchuguala, Felipe, Rivadeneira, Francisco, Scholtissek, Arne, Hasse, Christian, Gutheil, Eva, Olguin, Hernan
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Published: 2025
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author Huenchuguala, Felipe
Rivadeneira, Francisco
Scholtissek, Arne
Hasse, Christian
Gutheil, Eva
Olguin, Hernan
author_facet Huenchuguala, Felipe
Rivadeneira, Francisco
Scholtissek, Arne
Hasse, Christian
Gutheil, Eva
Olguin, Hernan
contents Solutions of the spray flamelet equations reported in the literature during the last decade have been limited to very specific situations presenting steady evaporation profiles only. In contrast, intrinsically unsteady interactions between the liquid and gas phases have received little attention so far. In this work, the spray flamelet equations are closed by means of a Lagrangian description of the liquid phase in mixture fraction space, which allows solving them for unsteady situations. The resulting formulation is then employed to conduct parametric analyses of the effects of initial droplet radius and velocity variations on ethanol/air non-premixed gas flamelets perturbed by sprays generated with different droplet injection strategies. Special emphasis is given to the differences between continuous and discontinuous droplet injection. The results illustrate how the latter can considerably increase the temperature and stability of flamelet structures, provided the spray parameters are appropriately selected.
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spellingShingle Unsteady solutions of the spray flamelet equations
Huenchuguala, Felipe
Rivadeneira, Francisco
Scholtissek, Arne
Hasse, Christian
Gutheil, Eva
Olguin, Hernan
Fluid Dynamics
Solutions of the spray flamelet equations reported in the literature during the last decade have been limited to very specific situations presenting steady evaporation profiles only. In contrast, intrinsically unsteady interactions between the liquid and gas phases have received little attention so far. In this work, the spray flamelet equations are closed by means of a Lagrangian description of the liquid phase in mixture fraction space, which allows solving them for unsteady situations. The resulting formulation is then employed to conduct parametric analyses of the effects of initial droplet radius and velocity variations on ethanol/air non-premixed gas flamelets perturbed by sprays generated with different droplet injection strategies. Special emphasis is given to the differences between continuous and discontinuous droplet injection. The results illustrate how the latter can considerably increase the temperature and stability of flamelet structures, provided the spray parameters are appropriately selected.
title Unsteady solutions of the spray flamelet equations
topic Fluid Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23389