NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF UNSTEADY DROPLET COMBUSTION PROCESS IN HOT QUIESCENT AIR ENVIRONMENTS (HQAE)

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NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF UNSTEADY DROPLET COMBUSTION PROCESS IN HOT QUIESCENT AIR ENVIRONMENTS (HQAE)

A mathematical model has been presented for describing single droplet unsteady processes of vaporization, ignition and combustion in a hot quiescent air environment. The arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian numerical method, incorporated with an effective adaptive mesh method, is applied. From the obtained time space distributions of gas temperature and species densities, the characteristics of droplet ignition and combustion process are clarified. It is also demonstrated that, due to the strong damping of the high temperature flame region around the droplet, the ambient conditions have little effects on the properties of the drop's surface; and that, due to the unsteady prediction of droplet heating time being much less than the corresponding quasi steady prediction under burning condition, the differences between unsteady and quasi steady results are much greater than those under pure vaporization.