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dc.contributor.advisorSantosh, Hemchandra
dc.contributor.authorKiran, S
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-21T09:43:52Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-31T05:16:37Z
dc.date.available2018-05-21T09:43:52Z
dc.date.available2018-07-31T05:16:37Z
dc.date.issued2018-05-21
dc.date.submitted2017
dc.identifier.urihttps://etd.iisc.ac.in/handle/2005/3572
dc.identifier.abstracthttp://etd.iisc.ac.in/static/etd/abstracts/4441/G28425-Abs.pdfen_US
dc.description.abstractLiquid jet atomisation has a wide variety of application in areas such as injectors in automobile and launch vehicle combustors, spray painting, ink jet printing etc. Understanding physical mechanisms involved in the primary regime of atomisation in combustors is extremely challenging due to the lack of experimental techniques that can reliably provide measurements of gas and liquid velocity fields in this region. Experimental studies have so far been mostly restricted to conditions at atmospheric conditions rather than technically relevant operating pressures. We present a computational fluid dynamics based modelling approach that can capture the evolution of the flow field in the dense primary atomization region of the spray as part of the present thesis work. A fully compressible 3D flow solver is coupled with an interface tracking solver based on level set method. A generalised mathematical formulation for thermodynamic models is implemented in flow solver enabling easy switching between various equations of states. Solvers are parallelised to run on large number of processors and are shown to have good scalability. A modification to the level set method which greatly reduces mass conservation inaccuracies when compared with existing state-of-art baseline schemes has been developed during this work. The Ghost uid Method is used for applying matching conditions at the Interface. The liquid and gas phases are modelled using the perfect gas and Tait equations of state respectively. Several validation studies have been carried out to ensure quantitative accuracy of the solver implemented. Results from canonical Rayleigh Taylor instability simulations shows good agreement with reported results in literature. Finally, results for unsteady evolution of a water-air jet at a liquid to gas density ratio of 10 are shown. Physical mechanisms causing the initial droplet formation are discussed in detail. Droplet feedback is identified as one of the important mechanisms in triggering liquid core instabilities. Comparisons between droplet size distributions obtained from computations are carried out. Vorticity dynamics is used to understand hole and ligament formation from liquid core. Effect of numerical droplets on the simulation results is also looked at in detail.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesG28425en_US
dc.subjectLiquid Medium Atomization,en_US
dc.subjectGhost Fluid Methoden_US
dc.subjectLiquid Jet Atomizationen_US
dc.subjectAtomization Simulationen_US
dc.subjectSpatial Discretizationen_US
dc.subjectTemporal Discretizationen_US
dc.subjectRayleigh Taylor Instabilityen_US
dc.subject.classificationAerospace Engineeringen_US
dc.titleA Ghost Fluid Method for Modelling Liquid Jet Atomizationen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.degree.nameMSc Enggen_US
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.degree.disciplineFaculty of Engineeringen_US


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