Sprays from droplets impacting a mesh

DOI10.1017/JFM.2019.289zbMATH Open1419.76636arXiv1812.02446OpenAlexW3099967805WikidataQ127842062 ScholiaQ127842062MaRDI QIDQ5378181FDOQ5378181

J. Carmeliet, Daniel Bonn, T. C. de Goede, D. Derome, N. Shahidzadeh, S. A. Kooij, A. M. Moqaddam

Publication date: 12 June 2019

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In liquid spray applications, the sprays are often created by the formation and destabilization of a liquid sheet or jet. The disadvantage of such atomization processes is that the breakup is often highly irregular, causing a broad distribution of droplet sizes. As these sizes are controlled by the ligament corrugation and size, a monodisperse spray should consist of ligaments that are both smooth and of equal size. A straightforward way of creating smooth and equally sized ligaments is by droplet impact on a mesh. In this work we show that this approach does however not produce monodisperse droplets, but instead the droplet size distribution is very broad, with a large number of small satellite drops. We demonstrate that the fragmentation is controlled by a jet instability, where initial perturbations caused by the injection process result in long-wavelength disturbances that determine the final ligament breakup. During destabilization the crests of these disturbances are connected by thin ligaments which are the leading cause of the large number of small droplets. A secondary coalescence process, due to small relative velocities between droplets, partly masks this effect by reducing the amount of small droplets. Of the many parameters in this system, we describe the effect of varying the mesh size, mesh rigidity, impact velocity, wetting properties, keeping the liquid properties the same by focusing on water droplets only. We further perform Lattice Boltzmann modeling of the impact process that reproduces key features seen in the experimental data.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02446

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zbMATH Keywords

capillary flowsbreakup/coalescenceaerosols/atomization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Liquid-gas two-phase flows, bubbly flows (76T10) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids (76D45)

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