Accurate level set method for simulations of liquid atomization  

气液界面捕获的精确水平集方法:液体雾化（英文）

作　　者：邵长孝 罗坤 杨建山 陈松 樊建人 

机构地区：[1]State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization, Zhejiang University

出　　处：《Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering》2015年第4期597-604,共8页中国化学工程学报（英文版）

基　　金：the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51176170,51276163);the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars(LR12E06001);supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities

摘　　要：Computational fluid dynamics is an efficient numerical approach for spray atomization study, but it is challenging to accurately capture the gas-liquid interface. In this work, an accurate conservative level set method is intro- duced to accurately track the gas-liquid interfaces in liquid atomization. To validate the capability of this method, binary drop collision and drop impacting on liquid film are investigated. The results are in good agreement with experiment observations. In addition, primary atomization （swirling sheet atomization） is studied using this method. To the swirling sheet atomization, it is found that Rayleigh-Taylor instability in the azimuthal direction causes the primary breakup of liquid sheet and complex vortex structures are clustered around the rim of the liq- uid sheet. The effects of central gas velocity and liquid-gas density ratio on atomization are also investigated. This work lays a solid foundation for further studvin~ the mechanism of s^rav atomization.Computational fluid dynamics is an efficient numerical approach for spray atomization study,but it is challenging to accurately capture the gas–liquid interface.In this work,an accurate conservative level set method is introduced to accurately track the gas–liquid interfaces in liquid atomization.To validate the capability of this method,binary drop collision and drop impacting on liquid film are investigated.The results are in good agreement with experiment observations.In addition,primary atomization(swirling sheet atomization)is studied using this method.To the swirling sheet atomization,it is found that Rayleigh–Taylor instability in the azimuthal direction causes the primary breakup of liquid sheet and complex vortex structures are clustered around the rim of the liquid sheet.The effects of central gas velocity and liquid–gas density ratio on atomization are also investigated.This work lays a solid foundation for further studying the mechanism of spray atomization.

关 键 词：Computational fluid dynamicsLevel set methodSpray atomizationInterface captureBreakup 

分 类 号：O35[理学—流体力学]