Immiscible heavy fuel-water (W/HFO) emulsion droplets inside combustion chambers are
subjected to explosive boiling and fragmentation due to the different boiling point between …

The deformation and breakup of droplets in airflows is important in many applications of
spray and atomization processes. However, the shear effect of airflow has never been …

Micro-sized droplets in air may impact aircraft wings and induce severe ice accretion. The
deformation and acceleration of a single droplet in a continuous airflow are simulated using …

Droplet size substantially affects the fate of oil released from deep subsea leaks. A baseline
dataset of volume-median droplet diameters (d 50), culled from~ 250 laboratory …

The present work examines the aerodynamic breakup of four liquid droplets in tandem
formation at Diesel engine conditions using the Volume of Fluid (VOF) method. The …

The atomization mechanism of the gas-liquid multiphase flow through an internally mixing
twin-fluid Y-jet atomizer has been studied by examining both the internal and external flow …

Deformation until the beginning of disintegration (ie, the first rupture time) is the first stage of
a droplet's secondary breakup in a gas stream. Experiments were performed to examine the …

Deformation of a droplet from an initial spherical shape to a disk-like structure is common
during its secondary breakup. Characterizing this initial deformation is important to develop …

We, herein, report a fatal instability in an acoustically levitated droplet when exposed to hot
product gases of a flame. The initially stable millimeter size droplets were observed to …

Fuel atomization, the transformation of bulk liquid into sprays, is of importance in jet engines.
In this chapter, we will introduce the latest research advances on breakup morphology and …