“…A large body of work in the open literature involves measurements and modeling of spray nozzle internal and external flows (Arcoumanis and Gavaises, 1998;Chen et al, 1998;Founti et al, 2007;Menard et al, 2007;Ishimoto et al, 2008;Som and Aggarwal, 2008;Strasser, 2008;Collazo et al, 2009;Fu et al, 2009). In general, many authors show a SMD / L C We Àx relation, where ''x'' ranges from 0.33 to 0.8, SMD is the Sauter mean droplet diameter, We is the Weber number (qU 2 L c /r), and L c is some characteristic length scale, often taken as the outer diameter D O shown in Fig.…”