Publication detail

Computational Simulations of Spray Cooling with Air-Assist Injectors

GREENLEE, B. LEE, T. BELLEROVÁ, H. RAUDENSKÝ, M.

Original Title

Computational Simulations of Spray Cooling with Air-Assist Injectors

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

A new computational procedure for simulating air-assist flat sprays with atomization is described and demonstrated for surface cooling applications. This procedure builds upon and utilizes findings from our previous work; particularly the integral form of the conservation equations which are used to derive explicit quadratic formulas for drop size. These formulations relate the local energetic state to initial drop size produced by primary atomization processes. In this manner, the local liquid and gas phase velocities prior to atomization are used in the quadratic formula to provide the initial drop size and the appropriate local velocities are utilized as the initial droplet momentum state in a discrete particle tracking algorithm. This procedure has been performed and compared to experimental data for drop size and velocity. This furnishes a platform to further study the effects of droplet distributions on heat transfer and momentum transfer between the spray and a heated metal surface. This approach is based on the conservation principles and generalizable, so that it can easily be implemented in any spray geometry for accurate and efficient computations of two-phase flows including spray cooling.

Keywords

computational cooling simulations, surface cooling, surface spraying, cooling nozzles, cooling calculations

Authors

GREENLEE, B.; LEE, T.; BELLEROVÁ, H.; RAUDENSKÝ, M.

Released

29. 6. 2022

Publisher

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC

Location

PHILADELPHIA

ISBN

0145-7632

Periodical

Heat Transfer Engineering

Year of study

44

Number

9

State

United States of America

Pages from

1

Pages to

14

Pages count

14

URL

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01457632.2022.2093534

BibTex

@article{BUT179807,
  author="Benjamin {Greenlee} and Tae-Woo {Lee} and Hana {Bellerová} and Miroslav {Raudenský}",
  title="Computational Simulations of Spray Cooling with Air-Assist Injectors",
  journal="Heat Transfer Engineering",
  year="2022",
  volume="44",
  number="9",
  pages="1--14",
  doi="10.1080/01457632.2022.2093534",
  issn="0145-7632",
  url="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01457632.2022.2093534"
}