Modern
diesel engines operate under injection pressures varying from
30 to 200 MPa and employ combinations of very early and conventional
injection timings to achieve partially homogeneous mixtures.
The variety of injection and cylinder pressures results in droplet
atomization under a wide range of Weber numbers. The high injection
velocities lead to fast jet disintegration and secondary droplet
atomization under shear and catastrophic breakup mechanisms.
The primary atomization of the liquid jet is modeled considering
the effects of both infinitesimal wave growth on the jet surface
and jet turbulence. Modeling of the secondary atomization is
based on a combination of a drop fragmentation analysis and
a boundary layer stripping mechanism of the resulting fragments
for high Weber numbers. The drop fragmentation process is predicted
from instability considerations on the surface of the liquid
drop. Validation of the model has been performed by comparing
the computational results with experimental measurements from
isolated drops in shock tube experiments as well as with observations
from fully developed diesel sprays.