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The realization that interfacial features play little role in diesel spray vaporization and advection has changed the modus operandi for spray modeling. Lagrangian particle tracking has typically been focused on droplet behavior, with…
The energy shaping method, Controlled Lagrangian, is a well-known approach to stabilize the under-actuated Euler Lagrange (EL) systems. In this approach, to construct a control rule, some nonlinear, nonhomogeneous partial differential…
Modeling of a dense spray regime using an Euler-Lagrange approach is challenging because of local high volume loading. A cluster of droplets, that are assumed subgrid, can lead to locally low void fractions for the fluid phase. Under these…
Particle-laden effects in high-speed flows require a coupled Euler and Lagrangian prediction technique with varying fidelity of thermochemical models, depending on the simulation conditions of interest. This requirement makes the…
Reliable estimates of the fluxes of momentum, heat, and moisture at the air-sea interface are essential for accurate long term climate projections, as well as the prediction of short term weather events such as tropical cyclones. In recent…
An Equilibrium Phase (EP) spray model has been recently proposed for modeling high-pressure diesel fuel injection, which is based on jet theory and a phase equilibrium assumption. In this approach, the non-equilibrium processes of drop…
Accurate prediction of spray atomization process using an Euler-Lagrange (EL) approach is challenging because of high volume fraction of the liquid phase in dense regimes. This would in reality displace a remarkable portion of the gaseous…
In this work, an LES model with finite-rate phase change and subgrid spray based on a high-resolution numerical scheme for multiphase multi-component simulations which satisfies interface equilibrium and phase immiscibility conditions is…
Thus far, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations fail to predict the electrostatic charging of particle-gas flows reliably. The lack of a predictive tool leads to powder operations prone to deposits and discharges, making chemical…
Energetic particle effects in magnetic confinement fusion devices are commonly studied by hybrid kinetic-fluid simulation codes whose underlying continuum evolution equations often lack the correct energy balance. While two different…
The development of blood-handling medical devices, such as ventricular assist devices, requires the analysis of their biocompatibility. Among other aspects, this includes hemolysis, i.e., red blood cell damage. For this purpose,…
This work derives how the convergence of stochastic Lagrangian/Eulerian simulations depends on the number of computational parcels, particularly for the case of spray modeling. A new, simple, formula is derived that can be used for managing…
The aim of the present paper is to introduce and to discuss inconsistencies errors that may arise when Eulerian and Lagrangian models are coupled for the simulations of turbulent poly-dispersed two-phase flows. In these hydrid models, two…
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…
Thus far, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations fail to reliably predict the electrostatic charging of powder during pneumatic conveying. The lack of a predictive tool is one reason for unwanted discharges and growing deposits that…
The scope of the present study is Eulerian modeling and simulation of polydisperse liquid sprays undergoing droplet coalescence and evaporation. The fundamental mathematical description is the Williams spray equation governing the joint…
Eulerian-Lagrangian models of particle-laden (multiphase) flows describe fluid flow and particle dynamics in the Eulerian and Lagrangian frameworks respectively. Regardless of whether the flow is turbulent or laminar, the particle dynamics…
A novel method combining the fully Lagrangian approach (FLA) and kernel regression has been developed for two-way coupled simulations of evaporating sprays. The carrier phase is incompressible viscous flow described by the Navier-Stokes…
The need for improved engine efficiencies has motivated the development of high-pressure combustion systems, in which operating conditions achieve and exceed critical conditions. Associated with these conditions are strong variations in…
The Lagrangian probability-density-function model, proposed in Part I for dense particle-laden turbulent flows, is validated here against Eulerian-Lagrangian direct numerical simulation (EL) data for different homogeneous flows, namely…