Christopher J. Rutland

TL;DR: This work shows how the no-time-counter (NTC) method can be extended for the general case of varying numbers of droplets per parcel and produces a method of calculating spray droplet collisions that is both faster and more accurate than the current standard method of O'Rourke.

TL;DR: In this paper, a linear stability analysis is presented for a liquid sheet that includes the effects of the surrounding gas, surface tension and the liquid viscosity on the wave growth process, which is used to predict the maximum unstable growth rate and wave length, the sheet breakup length and the resulting drop size for pressure-swirl atomizers.

TL;DR: In this article, a general model of the pyrolysis of a wood slab is presented and validated with a set of heat release data, applied to particle half-thicknesses from 5 μm to 5 cm, temperatures from 800 to 2000 K, and moisture contents from 0% to 30%.

TL;DR: In this article, a strong Lewis-number-dependent correlation was found between surface curvature and the local flame speed, and the mean product temperature was also found to vary with Lewis number, being higher for Le greater than 1 and lower for Le less than 1.

TL;DR: The development and validation of Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) models for diesel engine combustion and emissions is described in this article, where a modified version of the KIVA code is used for the computations, with improved submodels for liquid breakup, drop distortion and drag, spray-wall impingement with rebounding, sliding and breaking-up drops, wall heat transfer with unsteadiness and compressibility, multistep kinetics ignition and laminar-turbulent characteristic time combustion models, Zeldovich NOx formation, and soot formation