Gas/Fuel Jet Interfaces Under High Pressures and Temperatures
Journal article, 2016

We report observations regarding changes in surface morphology for transient fuel jets as the ambient conditions approach the critical properties of pure fuels. Both ballistic imaging and ultrafast shadow imaging were applied to four fuels as they were injected through a single hole Diesel injector into a spray research chamber operated at three different ambient conditions that span the range of critical properties for the pure fuels that were studied. The results indicate that the pure fuels (butanol, dodecane, and hexadecane) tend to undergo a change in image structure that usually scales with estimated mixture critical properties. Commercially available Diesel fuel is not strongly affected, even at the highest pressure and temperature conditions.

supercritical

diffusive mixing

fuel sprays

Author

Zachary Falgout

Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Combustion and Propulsion Systems

Mattias Rahm

Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Combustion and Propulsion Systems

David Sedarsky

Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Combustion and Propulsion Systems

Mark Linne

Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Combustion and Propulsion Systems

Fuel

0016-2361 (ISSN)

Vol. 168 14-21

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Areas of Advance

Transport

Energy

Subject Categories

Energy Engineering

DOI

10.1016/j.fuel.2015.11.061

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Created

10/7/2017