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William A. Sirignano

Bio: William A. Sirignano is an academic researcher from University of California, Irvine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Combustion & Vaporization. The author has an hindex of 48, co-authored 322 publications receiving 10527 citations. Previous affiliations of William A. Sirignano include Colorado State University & University of Illinois at Chicago.


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TL;DR: In this article, the effects of variable thermophysical properties, non-unitary Lewis number in the gas film, and effect of the Stefan flow on heat and mass transfer between the droplet and the gas, and the effect of internal circulation and transient liquid heating are investigated.

1,268 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, isolated droplet vaporization, heating, and multi-component liquid droplets are discussed. But the authors focus on the behavior of droplet behavior at near critical, transcritical, and supercritical conditions.
Abstract: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Theory of isolated droplet vaporization, heating 3. Multicomponent liquid droplets 4. Droplet arrays and groups 5. Spray equations 6. Computational issues 7. Spray applications 8. Droplet interactions with turbulence and vortical structures 9. Droplet behavior at near critical, transcritical, and supercritical conditions Nomenclature References Appendices Index.

991 citations

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TL;DR: A critical review of modern theoretical developments on problems of droplet vaporization in a high-temperature environment and of spray combustion is presented in this paper, with some mention of empirical evidence.

625 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
11 Jan 1988
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of variable thermophysical properties, non-unitary Lewis number in the gas film, and effect of the Stefan flow on heat and mass transfer between the droplet and the gas, and the effect of internal circulation and transient liquid heating are investigated.
Abstract: The re-examination of the classical droplet vaporization model is made in order to develop the simple but sufficiently accurate calculation algorithm which can be used in spray combustion calculations. The new model includes the effects of variable thermophysical properties, non-unitary Lewis number in the gas film, the effect of the Stefan flow on heat and mass transfer between the droplet and the gas, and the effect of internal circulation and transient liquid heating. To evaluate the competing simplified models of the droplet heating, the more-refined, extended model of heat transfer within a moving circulating droplet is considered. A simplified, one-dimensional ‘effective conductivity’ model is formulated for the transient liquid heating with internal circulation. As an illustration, the dynamic and vaporization histories of the droplets injected into the steady and fluctuating hot air streams are analyzed.

495 citations

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TL;DR: Linear and nonlinear analyses of the instabilities and distortion of liquid streams injected into a gaseous media are discussed in this paper, where various fundamental mechanisms and the predictive capabilities for the distortions are emphasized.

237 citations


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01 Jan 1997
TL;DR: The boundary layer equations for plane, incompressible, and steady flow are described in this paper, where the boundary layer equation for plane incompressibility is defined in terms of boundary layers.
Abstract: The boundary layer equations for plane, incompressible, and steady flow are $$\matrix{ {u{{\partial u} \over {\partial x}} + v{{\partial u} \over {\partial y}} = - {1 \over \varrho }{{\partial p} \over {\partial x}} + v{{{\partial ^2}u} \over {\partial {y^2}}},} \cr {0 = {{\partial p} \over {\partial y}},} \cr {{{\partial u} \over {\partial x}} + {{\partial v} \over {\partial y}} = 0.} \cr }$$

2,598 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a joint probability density function (pdf) of the three components of velocity and of the composition variables (species mass fractions and enthalpy) to calculate the properties of turbulent reactive flow fields.

2,578 citations

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TL;DR: A review of the fundamental and technological aspects of these subjects can be found in this article, where the focus is mainly on surface tension effects, which result from the cohesive properties of liquids Paradoxically, cohesive forces promote the breakup of jets, widely encountered in nature, technology and basic science.
Abstract: Jets, ie collimated streams of matter, occur from the microscale up to the large-scale structure of the universe Our focus will be mostly on surface tension effects, which result from the cohesive properties of liquids Paradoxically, cohesive forces promote the breakup of jets, widely encountered in nature, technology and basic science, for example in nuclear fission, DNA sampling, medical diagnostics, sprays, agricultural irrigation and jet engine technology Liquid jets thus serve as a paradigm for free-surface motion, hydrodynamic instability and singularity formation leading to drop breakup In addition to their practical usefulness, jets are an ideal probe for liquid properties, such as surface tension, viscosity or non-Newtonian rheology They also arise from the last but one topology change of liquid masses bursting into sprays Jet dynamics are sensitive to the turbulent or thermal excitation of the fluid, as well as to the surrounding gas or fluid medium The aim of this review is to provide a unified description of the fundamental and the technological aspects of these subjects

1,583 citations

01 Jan 2016
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1,531 citations