NUMERICAL SIMULATION AND UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION OF A GENERIC DROPLET EVAPORATION VALIDATION TEST CASE

a high potential to reduce emissions in aviation. A big difficulty for their introduction is the costly and lengthy assessment of fuel effects on combustion performance. In the present work, the evaporation of freefalling droplets of realistic size (D 80 m) in a well-defined vertical laminar heated flow is studied experimentally and numerically. Measurements of droplet diameters and velocities using microscopic double-pulse shadowgraphy are conducted for several single species and systematically chosen conventional and alternative multi-component jet fuels.