Transient heating of diesel fuel droplets

Modelling of heating and evaporation of gasoline fuel droplets: A comparative analysis of approximations

“…Our analysis is based on the analytical solutions to the one-dimensional heat conduction and species diffusion equations inside spherically-symmetric droplets implemented in the numerical code [25,28,12].…”

“…The simplest approach to doing this can be based on the application of the Effective Thermal Conductivity (ETC) model [28,29]. Also, in [12,13], which focused on the modelling of heating and evaporation of bi-component droplets, it was demonstrated that the effect of finite diffusivity and recirculation of liquid species cannot be ignored.…”

Monodisperse monocomponent fuel droplet heating and evaporation

“…The analysis by these authors was based on the numerical solution of the heat conduction equation inside droplets. An alternative approach was suggested and developed in [8][9][10][11][12][13]. In these papers both finite liquid thermal conductivity and recirculation inside droplets (via the effective thermal conductivity (ETC) model [14]) were taken into account by incorporating the analytical solution to the heat conduction equation inside the droplet into the numerical scheme.…”

“…The preliminary validation of the model developed in [8][9][10][11][12] against published experimental data was reported in [9]. This validation, however, was limited to the comparison of predicted and calculated droplet diameters or global characteristics such as the ignition delay.…”

“…The experimental data used in our analysis are the same as earlier reported in [15]. These data were used in [15] for validation of the model different from the one developed in [8][9][10][11][12] (see [16,17]). Hence, this paper is complementary to both earlier published papers [6,15].…”