Charge-Induced Secondary Atomization in Diffusion Flames of Electrostatic Sprays
作者:
ALESSANDRO GOMEZ,
GUNG CHEN,
期刊:
Combustion Science and Technology
(Taylor Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 96,
issue 1-3
页码: 47-59
ISSN:0010-2202
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1080/00102209408935346
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
The combustion of electrostatic sprays of heptane in laminar counterflow diffusion flames was experimentally studied by measuring droplet size and velocity distributions, as well as the gas-phase temperature. A detailed examination of the evolution of droplet size distribution as droplets approach the flame shows that, if substantial evaporation occurs before droplets interact with the flame, an initially monodisperse size distribution becomes bimodal. A secondary sharp peak in the size histogram develops in correspondence of diameters about one order of magnitude smaller than the mean. No evaporation mechanism can account for the development of such bimodality, that can be explained only in terms of a disintegration of droplets into finer fragments of size much smaller than that of the parent. Other evidence in support of this interpretation is offered by the measurements of droplet size-velocity correlation and velocity component distributions, showing that, as a consequence of the ejection process, the droplets responsible for the secondary peak have velocities uncorrelated with the mean flow. The fission is induced by the electric charge. When a droplet evaporates, in fact, the electric charge density on the droplet surface increases while the droplet shrinks, until the so-called Rayleigh limit is reached at which point the repulsion of electric charges overcomes the surface tension cohesive force, ultimately leading to a disintegration into finer fragments. We here report on the first observation of such fissions in combustion environments.
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