Numerical study on binary droplet collision considering the collision-induced breakup and the effects of liquid property

Abstract

The main purpose of the present study is to perform numerical study on the binary droplet collision considering the collision-induced breakup and the effects of liquid property. In this study, the collision model proposed in our previous study is used for simulation of collision-induced breakup, and we modify this model to consider the effect of liquid property on the behavior of droplet-droplet collision. This collision model is based on the conservation laws for mass, momentum, and energy between before and after collision and provides several formulae for post-collision characteristics of colliding droplets and satellite droplets. Improving the accuracy of the model, in this study, appreciate criterion for bouncing collision is added and dissipation energy during collision process is newly modeled. To validate the new model, numerical calculations are performed and their results are compared with experimental data published earlier for binary collisions of water, propanol, and tetradecane droplets. It is found from the results that the new model shows good agreement with experimental data for the number of satellite droplets. It can be also shown that the predicted mean diameter by the new model decrease with increasing the Weber number because of the collision-induced breakup, whereas the O'Rourke model fails to predict the size reduction via the binary droplet collision.