Droplet Rebound and Atomization Characteristics of Vibrating Surfaces
| dc.contributor.author | Kendurkar, Chinmay | en |
| dc.contributor.committeechair | Philen, Michael Keith | en |
| dc.contributor.committeechair | Coutier-Delgosha, Olivier | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Fu, Yao | en |
| dc.contributor.department | Aerospace and Ocean Engineering | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-01T09:00:09Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2023-03-01T09:00:09Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-02-28 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Icing on aircraft wings is one of the leading causes of aircraft crashes. It is mainly caused due to accumulation of ice or snow on the wing surface due to impact with supercooled droplets when passing through clouds at high altitudes, causing loss of lift obtained by the wings. It was found that droplet impact characteristics are dependent on droplet size, surface roughness, surface material hydrophobicity, and droplet impact velocity. As a continuation of the study of droplet impact contact characteristics by varying surface roughness and impact velocity, this study focuses on droplets impacting the vibrating surface at frequencies between 2-7 kHz. Atomization (water drop splitting into smaller droplets and ejecting from the surface) has been observed at different rates for all frequencies. The first set of data is collected by keeping roughness constant and increasing the amplitude of the vibration to observe the critical amplitude at which atomization is initiated. The surface roughness is varied for the second set of experiments. The data is quantified using image processing of the high-speed videos to obtain the rate of ejection for each case. | en |
| dc.description.abstractgeneral | Icing on aircraft wings is among the leading causes of crashes, which involves small freezing water drops sticking to the wing surface thus reducing the lift. This study is an investigation to experimentally observe how small water droplets interact with surfaces vibrating at high frequencies when impacted. Surface roughness, materials, droplet velocities, and frequency of vibration have been varied and the droplet was captured using high-speed photography to study their effect on the aforementioned interaction. Glass, PET-G. and aluminum having specific roughness were fabricated using laser and chemical etching. Atomization (water drop splitting into smaller droplets and ejecting from the surface) has been observed at different rates for all frequencies. A relation between the amplitude of the vibration and the rate of atomization was found. The effect of varying frequencies and surface roughness has also been documented. | en |
| dc.description.degree | Master of Science | en |
| dc.format.medium | ETD | en |
| dc.identifier.other | vt_gsexam:36540 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/114011 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Virginia Tech | en |
| dc.rights | In Copyright | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | Droplet Impact | en |
| dc.subject | High-Frequency Vibrations | en |
| dc.subject | Atomization | en |
| dc.subject | Piezoelectric Transducer | en |
| dc.title | Droplet Rebound and Atomization Characteristics of Vibrating Surfaces | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Aerospace Engineering | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | en |
| thesis.degree.level | masters | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Science | en |
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