Studies of the combustion of drops in a fuel spray—the burning of single drops of fuel

The objective of this paper is to examine the fundamental mechanisms responsible for the transition between subcritical evaporation and supercritical dense-fluid-mixing in the absence of convection effects, specifically focusing on the liquid–vapor interfacial dynamics. To isolate the dynamics of this transition process, we characterize the different physical behaviors exhibited by an n-dodecane nanoscale droplet placed in different nitrogen...