Adaptive collision meshing and satellite droplet formation in spray simulations

International Journal of Multiphase Flow

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 935-956

  Hou, Shuhai ^a   Schmidt, David P ^b  

^a CATERPILLAR INC   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

Collision mesh; Collision outcome; Droplet collision

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIESEL FUELS; DROP FORMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

COLLISION MESH; COLLISION OUTCOMES; DROPLET COLLISIONS; PARCEL NUMBER;

SPRAYING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIESEL FUELS; DROP FORMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SPRAYING;

EID: 33746801952     PISSN: 03019322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2006.02.013     Document Type: Article

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