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Spray formation and atomization in a gas-liquid mixing layer is an important fundamental problem of multiphase flows. It is highly desirable to visualize the detailed atomization process and to analyze the instabilities and mechanisms…
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Spray formation in ambient atmosphere from gas-centered swirl coaxial atomizers is described by carrying out experiments in a spray test facility. The atomizer discharges a circular air jet and an axisymmetric swirling water sheet from its…
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We use existing 3D Discrete Element simulations of simple shear flows of spheres to evaluate the radial distribution function at contact that enables kinetic theory to correctly predict the pressure and the shear stress, for different…