Abstract
In an internal combustion engine, interactions of fuel droplets and heated walls can significantly affect the combustion process and engine performance. The formation and characteristics of secondary droplets from drop-wall interactions are functions of various factors such as fuel properties, impact velocity, ambient conditions, and wall temperature. Understanding the impact behavior is important to optimize the distribution of the fuel-air mixture for efficient and clean combustion and to develop a comprehensive spray-wall interaction model. In this study, three-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations are performed to investigate the interactions of fuel droplets with a heated wall at atmospheric and elevated pressures over a range of Weber numbers (We). The SPH model is validated using available experimental data. Secondary atomization is characterized by using size distributions for different fuels. The resulting droplets vary in size, where secondary droplets are mostly below 7 μm in diameter. Following these cases, this paper qualitatively describes the impact process and proposes empirical correlation relating the mean secondary droplet size to ambient pressure in the film-boiling regime. Postimpingement vaporization characteristics are also analyzed and compared for fuels with drastically different vapor pressures.
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