Abstract
Disintegration of annular liquid sheets is an important field of study that plays a crucial role in engine combustion. The focus of this study is to analyze different modes of sheets experimentally in an advanced hybrid injector, which uses both pressure swirl and air momentum to impart instability into the sheet. Apart from measurement of certain macroscopic spray physical parameters like breakup length and sheet width, the images for different sheet profiles were processed to obtain fractal dimensions, temporal frequency, and different orthogonal modes using proper orthogonal decomposition. A moderate airflow is seen to create a stable liquid sheet with increased breakup length, whereas higher airflows at low liquid flows create an air-blast type of spray with disintegration very close to the nozzle. The latter shows dominance of multiple smaller temporal frequencies with relatively lower power spectral densities. A spray with high liquid flow and relatively low airflows shows a longer and wider sheet with a single dominant frequency.
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