Within ongoing work, Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) is demonstrating that copper coatings can be developed as viable corrosion barriers for used fuel nuclear containers, emplaced in a deep geological repository. As a means of assessing container design and feasibility, coated samples, manufactured via cold spray and electrodeposition have been produced and characterised. ...

Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) techniques have become one of the main tools in the design and development of diesel engines. There exist, however, some drawbacks and problems that must be overcome in the next years. One of the challenges is to predict accurately the couple between the flow inside the nozzle and the spray, including the primary break-up and the secondary atomization. In the l...

Title of Document: SPRAY FLAME AND EXHAUST JET CHARACTERISTICS OF A PRESSURIZED SWIRL COMBUSTOR Martin Brendan Linck, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Directed By: Professor Ashwani K. Gupta Department of Mechanical Engineering This work describes an investigation of swirl-stabilized flames, created in a combustor featuring co-annular swirling airflows, under unenclosed, enclosed, and submerged condi...

Increased understanding is needed with respect to soot formation from high pressure diesel sprays as emissions standards become increasingly stringent and require complex methods for its reduction. Understanding soot formation and its spatial distributions is necessary to advance fundamental spray combustion knowledge. Given that the underlying nature of high pressure combusting diesel sprays r...

The surface modification processes such as hard facing, case carburizing, thermal spraying, ion nitriding, tough nitriding, and others, are some of the important techniques being adopted for providing enhanced life for parts and components, in service. Among them, plasma spray and High Velocity Oxy Fuel (HVOF) spray coatings are popular and widely used. In this investigation, plasma & High Velo...

Recently, the high-pressure fuel injection performance of common-rail direct injection (CRDi) engines has become more important, due to the need to improve the multi-injection strategy. A multiple injection strategy provides better emission and fuel economy characteristics than a normal single injection scheme. The CRDi engine performance changes with the type of high-pressure electro-mechanica...

-A stochastic model based on the Boltzmann kinetic equation and employing the comprehensive treatment of the dynamics of binary droplet collisions is suggested to describe the droplet size and spatial distribution in dense spray. The model is valid for highly non-equilibrium impinging sprays in which the inertia of the droplets is very high and dynamic coupling with the gas is low. A Monte Carl...

The image of thermal spray splats is difficult to collect due to its high velocity of droplets. Especial in High Velocity Oxy-Fuel (HVOF) process, the process present higher velocity of flame jet correlated to other thermal spray process. The system presents at this article describes a useful splats catching method to obtaining splats during thermal spray deposited. Capabilities and advantages ...

A simplified spray environment is used to represent the multicomponent nature of liquid fuels and to examine the sensitivity of their vaporization behavior to the various liquidand gas-phase models. Liquid-phase models are the diffusion limit, the infinite diffusion, and the vortex. Gas-phase models are the Ranz-Marshall correlation and the axisymmetric model. Three subsets of equations are sol...

Suitability of the Sauter mean diameter and the surface-area mean diameter for representing the ignition and combustor behavior of polydisperse sprays is examined. Initial size distributions considered are the Nukiyama-Tanasawa distribution and a bidisperse spray. Two physical situations are analyzed. In the first, the ignition characteristics of a polydisperse spray in the viscinity of a hot w...