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In this study, the background gas of the droplet vaporization was concerned and simulated numerically using ANSYS fluent code. The new type, engine-like, condition of high pressure chamber and high temperature environment was considered to conduct experiment on kerosene droplet evaporation. 2D geometry of domain simulation was discretized in the very fine quadrilateral meshes. The numerical approach was solved using implicit scheme of compressible gas solver (density based). Temperature dependent properties of air are expressed for gas material properties. As the study concerning on high pressure condition the equation state of Peng-Robinson was expressed in simulation. Governing equations of mass, momentum and energy were solved by the second order upwind for flow, turbulent kinetic energy and turbulent dissipation rate. Standard k-ε model was used to solve turbulence flow in the spatial discretization.

In this paper, droplet behavior near diffusion flame was observed. Single droplet was created by thin glass tube and piezo device which pushes the side of glass tube. Dispersions of droplets location near diffusive flame were compared to droplets with no flame condition. CCD camera, strobe light with 180nsec flash time and lens of ten magnification were used for observation. Droplet pictures were taken with resolution of 0.46um/pix. As a result, droplets near diffusive flame tend to increase its dispersion of location as approaching tip of the flame. Stefan flow caused by evaporation and turbulence outer flow can be thought as causes.