The Mesoscopic Eulerian Approach for Evaporating Droplets Interacting with Turbulent Flows

Author: Masi Enrica  

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

ISSN: 1386-6184

Source: Applied Scientific Research, Vol.86, Iss.3-4, 2011-04, pp. : 563-583

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Abstract

This paper presents a statistical approach, known as mesoscopic Eulerian formalism (Février et al., J Fluid Mech 533:1-46, 2005), which is extended in order to model a cloud of inertial evaporating droplets interacting with a turbulent carrier flow. This approach is checked in a non-isothermal droplet-laden turbulent planar jet by means of a priori</i> tests. The “measurement” of the mesoscopic particle-velocity and particle-temperature moments is accomplished by using the Eulerian particle fields computed from a Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) coupled with a Lagrangian approach for the droplets. The results of this work show the ability of such an approach to describe the evaporating dispersed phase interacting with turbulent flows.