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In this work, the cone-jet mode of electrospray is simulated by a two phase solver in OpenFoam software. For this aim firstly, breakup of a liquid jet is examined without applying any electric potential to the injecting capillary and results are compared with other works to evaluate the two phase solver. Next with applying electric potential, the whole evolution of cone-jet in time is simulated. One of the most important issues in this mode is the minimum potential that needs to form a stable cone-jet in different flow rates. These minimum voltages are obtained in various flow rates and compared with other experimental and computational works. Result shows that with increasing flow rate the... 

In this research, the numerical simulation of liquid jet ejecting for a series of elliptical orifices into gaseous phase with different aspect ratios, at Rayleigh flow regime and in a range of Weber numbers has been performed.
For simulations, the OpenFoam software was utilized, which its multiphase flow simulation solvers are based on volume of fluid (VOF) method. In order to achieve the most accurate results for axis-switching phenomenon and jet breakup length, the dynamic mesh refinement was used for all the examined cases. The results, which were validated with recent experimental and numerical works, indicate that jet breakup length raises by increasing Weber number from 20 to 300.... 

Electrospray is an interesting method to produce spray. This study has an insight on electrospraying phenomenon and its effective parameters. All modes, the forces and the situation to establish has been investigated for ethanol. Suitable configuration is introduced and for different flow rates and voltages the phenomenon is studied. Images are captured by two camera (high speed camera and high resolution camera) by using two method (shadowgraphy and light scattering). In the respect of producing fine and monodisperse droplets in cone-jet mode the stability of this mode is imported to enlarge. The special nozzle is design to increase stability of cone-jet mode even 70 times of using... 

In the present study liquid thermophysical properties in electrospray has been studied. Other parameters such as electrical configuration do not change during this study. For this purpose Alcoholic fuels have been chosen because of their high energy density and their polarity that make them suitable for electrospraying. Electrical conductivity, surface tension, viscosity, density and permittivity are the most effective liquid properties in the electrospraying. The visualization method used for this study is shadowgraphy and light scattering method. In this study the range of flow rate and voltage is acquired for each operational mode and Q-V diagram has been obtained for all liquids... 

In this project a heat pipe heat exchanger is designed for using in an organic rankine cycle. The cycle parameter and heat exchanger parameter are optimized at the same time. The cycle is optimized in three scenario and the results are compared. In the first scenario the objective function is the net power output of the cycle, in the second scenario the objective function is the ratio of net power output and heat transfer area(POPA) and the objective function of third optimization is POPA and exergy destruction rate(EDR). With first scenario as base case, in second scenario POPA is increased 94% and in second scenario EDR and POPA are increased 9% and 75% respectively. The results show that... 

Liquid jet behavior in an intense electric field is studied experimentally and numerically.Imaging is used in experiments to charactrize jet behavior. Electrospray of ethanol using a simple needle in a wide range of operating conditions is investigated. Liquid meniscus is captured using a high-speed camera and different electrospray modes are described based on involved forces. A new nozzle is invented that broadens the stability margins of the useful cone-jet mode. The physical mechanisms of the new cone-jet is discussed and it is characterized using appropriate dimensionless parameters. A simple jet in presence of a gaseous crossflow and a normal electric field is also studied. The liquid... 

When a liquid drop impacts on a hot non-flat surface the curvature of the surface and its geometrical characteristics transmute the physical regimes and their boundary compared to a flat surface impact. The present experimental study is focused on water drop impingement on the mimetic solid semi-cylindrical convex and concave hot surfaces. The thermal versus inertia map of generated regimes is obtained, while some well-known regimes associated with a flat surface are not observed for the present non-flat impacts. The maximum spreading of the droplet is measured at different surface temperatures and impact Weber numbers for the case of droplet impingement on the convex surface. In directrix... 

The purpose of this project is investigating the effect of cross flow and electric field on a liquid simple-jet experimentally. In this research the effect of parameters such as liquid to air momentum ratio, electric field on jet trajectory, penetration and the lenght of breakup point with respect to the jet outlet were studied. The air was produced by a blower in a duct with square test section of 8 cm sides. The air velocity varied from 1 m/s to 11 m/s. Liquid ethanol was injected into the duct with a needle with outer diameter of 0/62 mm and inner diameter of 0.4 mm and 28 mm length. The velocity of jet was 0/62 m/s while the change of liquid to air momentum ratio was from 3 to 260 The... 

With increasing demand for more efficient combustion processes, alternative processes like application of magnetic and electric fields for modification of combustion have offered possible solutions. In the recent years, liquid electro-spraying has been a hot topic with growing interest due to its wide applications in such area as fuel atomization in combustion systems, which has been investigated in this project. Notice that in this method the liquid fuel in the high voltage electric field between electrodes will be broken into small droplets. In this thesis diffusion combustion of two alcoholic liquid fuels of ethanol and butanol at the exit of a small-scale combustor of vertical Pyrex... 

In this thesis, elliptical liquid jet breakup in crossflow has been investigated. To do this, two elliptical nozzle with different aspect ratio were built. First, the effective and important dimensionless numbers were extracted. Then, the physical aspect of the question was analyzed. All the experiments have been done in atmospheric conditions with water fluid, air as the liquid jet, and gas crossflow respectively.To create crossflow, a square cross section channel and one blower which are set in the beginning of the channel were made use of. Water is injected into air crossflow by the injector installed under the channel. The system used in revealing the crossflow is shadowgraphy system.... 

Hybrid Solid Oxide Fuel Cell-Micro Gas Turbine systems(SOFC-MGT) present opportunities for improvement over conventional systems, including high efficiency, cogeneration, and the potential for low carbon emmisions. In order to advance toward commercialization, Hybrid systems need to model under design point and off-design situations that maintain safe and efficient operations, also exhibiting favorable exergetic and economic performance. The present work investigates the hybrid SOFC-MGT performance and effects of steam injection, humidity effect, and fuel change in the system. The 1-D model of SOFC stack has been developed in EES Code and then coupled with a microturbine’s components with... 

Flow analysis in and out of the pressure-swirl injector in supercritical condition is investigated in this thesis. These injectors widely are used in different industries such gas turbine combustion chamber and liquid fuel rockets. Flow simulation in these injectors is so complex because of existence of gas core in axial region and high swirl and axial speeds in injectors. Unlike subcritical condition, droplet and ligament don’t form in supercritical condition so injector performance represents with two parameters including liquid film thickness in vortex chamber and liquid spreading angle. Mass flow, geometric constant, length and the distance between tangential inlet and injector head, are... 

In This Study break up and trajectory of aerated liquid jet in subsonic cross flow has been investigated. An effervescent two phase flow injector has been used with two different diameters for its external orifice. The effects of non-dimensional parameters on the trajectory of aerated liquid jet were evaluated. Water was used as the fluid for the purpose of producing liquid jet. Air was used to produce gaseous phase in the injector and the cross flow as well.
A duct with a square cross section and a blower in the inlet of the duct were used to produce the cross flow. Mixture of air and water was injected into the cross flow by the injector installed at the bottom of the duct. Shadowgraph... 

Electrospray is one of the liquid spraying methods. This study has an insight on Electrospray phenomenon and its effective parameters. First, there is a short introduction of phenomenon, then, how it works and effective factors related to the procedure are described. All modes, the forces and the situation to establish has been investigated for ethanol sprayed from hemispherical nozzle. Suitable configuration is introduced and for different flow rates and voltages the phenomenon is studied. One of the innovations of this study is the imaging technique used to captured high-quality images. In fact, captured images by means of high-power light-emitting diode (LED) synchronized with digital... 

Due to Reduction of fossil fuels resources and the pollution caused by using them, it seems inevitable to shift to using reproducible energies. Among different resource of reproducible energy, fuel cell is one of suitable technologies for investigation and development. Fuel cell is an electrochemical system to convert chemical energy of fuel directly to electrical energy. Each fuel cell has seven part (two Bipolar Plate, two electrode, two catalyst layer and polymeric Membrane). Oxidation occur in anode of fuel cell and created electron enters external circuit and then riches the cathode. The positive ion created in the anode reaches the cathode through the membrane (electrolyte) and... 

One of the key features of multiphase flow applications is the creation of as little liquid droplets as possible. For example, it is important to use combustion to burn liquid fuels in combustion chambers, fuel-air mixing and complete evaporation of fuel. Liquid fuel should be converted into small droplets and then mixed with air quickly and evaporated. This challenge has been investigated using injectors of various designs and is still being investigated. One of the injectors used is injectors where both gas and liquid are injected into the injector and supplemented with each other. These injectors are referred to as focal injectors, in which gas flows through a typical orifice to... 

With the progression of technology demands for novel method of heat cooling is increased so the old method of cooling such as heat removal by air stream with force convection and even single phase method was not sufficient for today’s industry need. Nowaday, spray cooling method which belongs to two phase cooling method is one of the most popular method. In this study two method of spray cooling: spray cooling with flow blurring nozzle and electrospray cooling were investigated. For both method, at first the physics of phenomena and morphology of spray is studied experimentally then the efficiency of heat removal in each method is evaluated by the assessment of variation of temperature and... 

Since the construction of the first models of internal combustion engines in the nineteenth century, efficiency and, since the late twentieth century, pollution and fuel consumption has been the main issue for researchers and manufacturers who have always sought to improve it. Manufacturers of internal combustion engines are required to perform numerous tests to carefully study and increase the level of technology and reliability of their products. There have been two ways for them to do this; the first way is to use the experimental method; that is, making multiple samples that require a high cost that makes it impossible. The second way is to use engine simulation software, which can be... 

This reaserch is study on the performance of evaporation tubes used in mini jet engines which has been done experimentally using laboratory equipment. In this study, researchers have tried to simulate the laboratory conditions as much as possible to the real conditions inside the mini-jet engine, increase the accuracy of the results and increase the results and bring them closer to the results inside the mini-jet engine. The experiments are divided into two categories, cold and hot In cold tests, an attempt is made to study and investigate the types of two-phase flow regimes created by applying different fluid and air flow rates, and to select annular flow regimes from among them.... 

Transportation is one of the essential parts of human life and at the same time one of the main sources of greenhouse gases emissions that are harmful to the environment. Therefore, the use of electric vehicles have become widespread in recent years due to limited capacity of natural resources and environmental issues. As a result, attention to climate control systems for electric vehicles and electric aircrafts is growing rapidly. According to multiple studies, the integrated air conditioning-heat pump system is a suitable option as the climate control system.In this research, an air conditioning-heat pump system has been proposed and studied, which works based on the vapor compression...