Numerical Simulation of Fuel Droplet Interactions and Breakup.

Abstract

The objective of the research is to develop Lagrangian methods on triangular grids and apply these methods to the calculation of life-history and dynamics of fuel droplets. During the period October 1985 to September 1986, the two-dimensional code SPLISH was used to study droplet distortion and breakup due to shear flows. A preliminary calculation of droplet-droplet collision was performed. Further testing of the basic SPLISH hydrodynamic algorithms as well as the surface tension algorithm were performed on internal gravity and capillary waves. A reorganization of the computer code itself was begun in order to make the code user-friendly and, more importantly, portable.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA177014

Entities

People

  • David E. Fyfe
  • Elaine Oran

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Capillary Waves
  • Collisions
  • Computers
  • Distortion
  • Dynamics
  • Flow
  • Microvessels
  • Organizational Realignment
  • Physical Properties
  • Shear Flow
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Surface Tension
  • Two Dimensional
  • User Friendly

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerosol Science/Aerosol Physics
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)