Study of liquid and vapor phase behavior on Diesel sprays for heavy duty engine nozzles

The data proves that spray penetration at low temperature can be up to 15% faster than spray penetration at high temperature conditions at the same density for the nozzles experimented, which limits the usability of low temperature experiments to infer the behavior of the injector at high temperature conditions. The data also shows that the nozzle with the biggest diameter provided the highest value of stabilized liquid length as expected. Also, when vapor phase is reached, the temperature has negligible effect on the global diesel spray morphology, and no influence on the tip penetration or on the spreading angle.