Evaporation of single suspended droplets and sprays

Experiments Single suspended droplets of methanol, ethanol, n – decane and of various mixtures of diesel / biodiesel exposed in a convective environment. Measurement of evaporation rates in a droplet acoustic levitator test rig with the combined use of CCD optical videocamera and IR thermal camera.
Computational modeling Assessment of evaporation models of increasing complexity – accounting for evaporation mechanisms. Validation of predictions with experimental data.

	Contact Person(s)	Dr. Dimitrios Katsourinis Dr. Dionysios Kolaitis
	Relevant Project(s)
	Relevant Publication(s)	Kolaitis D.I. and Founti M.A., “A comparative study of numerical models for Eulerian-Lagrangian simulations of turbulent evaporating sprays”, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 27 (3), 424-435 (2006) Kolaitis D. and Founti M., “Scrutinizing Evaporation Models for Computational Modelling of Turbulent Sprays”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems (ICLASS 2003), 13-17 July 2003, Sorrento, Italy, Paper 2-18 (2003). Kolaitis D.I. and Founti M.A., “Comparing Evaporation Rates of Single Suspended Droplets”, Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Two-Phase Flow Predictions, 9-12 April 2002, Merseburg, Germany, 72-81 (2002)