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Collision Dynamics of a Single Droplet onto a Heated Dry Surface: Jet Fuel and HVO Mixtures

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Understanding the phenomena behind droplet impact is essential to improve the effectivenessin many industrial applications, such as fuel injection in an internal combustion engine andrapid spray cooling of hot surfaces. This study focuses on an experimental investigation ondroplet impact onto a heated wall. The purpose of this work is to analyse the influence of walltemperature on the morphology of a single droplet impact and observe the possible outcomes.In these experiments, the observation of all heat regimes was possible. Since there is an urgeto implement biofuels in general aviation, the fluids analysed are fuel based. The fluids usedwere distilled water, as a control group, 100% jet fuel, and a mixture of 50% biofuel with 50%jet fuel. This mixture corresponds to the maximum of renewable energy source fuel due to theminimum of 50% of jet fuel required by civil aviation. The impact energy was kept constant, andthe Weber number was set to 320. Furthermore, different wall temperatures were chosen (25◦C−320◦C) to seek every possible impact phenomenon and characterise the impact morphology.The impact dynamics were captured using a high-speed digital camera and the images weredigitally processed.

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Droplet Impact Experimental Study Jet Fuel Biofuel Mixtures Heated Surface

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Pedro Pinto, Daniel Vasconcelos, Daniela Ribeiro, Jorge Barata, André Silva Collision Dynamics of a Single Droplet onto a Heated Dry Surface: Jet Fuel and HVO Mixtures ICLASS 2021 - 15th Triennial International Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, Edimburgo, Reino Unido, 29 Agosto - 2 Setembro, 2021

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