THE EFFECTS OF SHAPE AND LIQUID PROPERTIES ON PRESSURE SWIRL ATOMIZER IN-NOZZLE FLOW
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The internal flow in pressure swirl atomizers is numerically predicted by performing large eddy simulations and using a volume of fluid approach. The output of the numerical model is validated by comparing it with three databases of experimental measurements obtained on large-scale pressure swirl atomizers available in the open literature. A simplified analytical model previously developed by the authors, which relates the swirl intensity to the thickness of the fluid exiting the nozzle, is used to analyze the flow behavior in three pressure swirl atomizers, with large differences in the injector geometry, the operating conditions, and the fluid thermophysical properties. This simple relationship is found to hold for the three pressure swirl atomizers, with small changes of the parameter that accounts for energy losses, while data obtained with relatively small variations of the injector geometry are found to collapse on the same curve. The effects of operating conditions and fluid thermophysical properties on this relation are found to be irrelevant.
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