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Numerical simulation of droplet evaporation in three-component multiphase flows using lattice Boltzmann method

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In this article, we present a numerical study of liquid droplet evaporation in three-component multiphase flows formulated on the basis of the lattice Boltzmann model. The main application of this research is the evaporation process in liquid propellant rocket engines, and therefore, the well-known fuels and oxidizers such as hydrogen and oxygen have been assigned to droplets material. A three-fluid (incompressible and immiscible) system is considered, and the interfaces of three fluids are captured by the Cahn–Hilliard flow model. A recent ternary-fluid model is developed to consider all the three fluids in phase-change phenomena for the first time. The present LB model is validated against some analytical and numerical solutions to evaluate the developed model accuracy in binary- and ternary-fluid systems. Effects of some related non-dimensional numbers on the droplets evaporation rate are studied, and velocity field and temperature contour are presented and analyzed. As a noticeable result, the higher evaporation rate is obtained at lower Reynolds number of droplets. Finally, as a more practical application, the evaporation of a hydrogen droplet and a few surrounded oxygen droplets in different conditions is studied. The results show that the increase in oxygen droplet numbers has a different effect on hydrogen and oxygen evaporation rates.

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    Navid Latifiyan, Mohammad Hassan Rahimian, Reza Haghani-Hassan-Abadi & Azadeh Jafari

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Latifiyan, N., Rahimian, M.H., Haghani-Hassan-Abadi, R. et al. Numerical simulation of droplet evaporation in three-component multiphase flows using lattice Boltzmann method. Acta Mech 233, 4817–4849 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00707-022-03307-2

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