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4.2. Two-dimensional Evaporating Water Spray in Air 67<br />
setup. The data at 0.08 m are taken as starting point for initial data generation for<br />
computations, and results are compared at later cross sections [205].<br />
4.2.2 Initial Data Generation<br />
The experimental data at the closest position to the nozzle is used to generate initial<br />
data for the numerical computations of DQMOM. The nearest experimental position<br />
is 0.08 m from the nozzle, where the measurements are available at radial positions<br />
separated by 1.5 × 10 −3 m distance. The PDA data at every radial position consists<br />
of droplet radius, velocities in axial and radial directions, and the time elapsed for<br />
each measurement, which gives the total time carried out over a period. These data<br />
are grouped into 100 droplet size classes [206]. The effective cross sectional area of<br />
the probe volume is computed, which is done to eliminate errors in measuring volume<br />
due to nonlinearity in phase/diameter relationship in large size droplets because of the<br />
nonuniform beam intensity [207]. The result of the calculation for a water flow rate of<br />
80 kg/h, at a position of 0.066 m from the center is shown in Fig. 4.14. The trajectory<br />
length exhibits strong fluctuations, and fluctuations increase with the droplet size.<br />
Furthermore, the number of droplets in the size classes for the larger diameters is<br />
typically much lower than in the smaller size classes. Therefore, the properties such<br />
as droplet trajectory lengths through the probe volume are statistically unreliable for<br />
drops with sizes greater than a certain threshold value [206, 207]. In particular, the<br />
decrease of the effective probe volume size with increasing droplet size such as from<br />
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