Numerical investigation of evaporation of a single ethanol/iso-octane droplet

Banerjee, Raja (2013) Numerical investigation of evaporation of a single ethanol/iso-octane droplet. Fuel, 107. pp. 724-739. ISSN 0016-2361

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Abstract

Numerical study has been performed to analyse evaporation of a single droplet composed of a binary mixture of ethanol and iso-octane. The Navier–Stokes equations are solved in conjunction with VOF multiphase model to track the liquid/gas interface over time. Ethanol and iso-octane form a highly non-ideal mixture and therefore the UNIFAC group contribution method was used to determine the vapour–liquid equilibrium (VLE). Source terms due to interfacial mass transfer were implemented in the continuity, momentum, energy and species equations. Commercial computational fluid dynamics solver, Ansys Fluent 13.0 was used in this study. VLE, mixture transport properties and source terms due to interfacial mass transfer were implemented using user defined functions. Parametric study to analyse the effect of free stream temperature and composition, droplet temperature and composition was performed.

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IITH Creators:	IITH Creators ORCiD Banerjee, Raja http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7163-1470
Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Author would also like to thank Raja Gopinath for providing for assistance in validating the evaporation model.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Droplet evaporation; Two-phase flow; VOF; Multicomponent fluid
Subjects:	Physics > Mechanical and aerospace
Divisions:	Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Depositing User:	Users 3 not found.
Date Deposited:	23 Sep 2014 04:22
Last Modified:	31 Aug 2017 03:52
URI:	http://raiithold.iith.ac.in/id/eprint/45
Publisher URL:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2013.01.003
OA policy:	http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0016-2361/
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