Influences of support fibers on vaporizing fuel droplets

Detailed computational modeling is performed to study influences of support fibers on vaporizing fuel droplets. Droplets are supported on thin fibers and vaporize in high-temperature and high-pressure environments with cross flows that are perpendicular to the fiber. Droplet Reynolds numbers, based on initial droplet diameters are 0.1, 4, and 30. The temperature distribution inside a support fiber is almost one-dimensional with significant...