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Abstract : Studying primary jet breakup is vital in order to understand the spray behavior of any nozzle. In this study, urea sprayed from a nozzle was probed to interpret its primary jet breakup attributes under both quiescent and crossflow conditions by incorporating a hybrid volume of fluid and discrete phase modeling approach. This analysis facilitates the understanding of the liquid behavior, observed particle tracks, size distributions, and certain parameters such as the breakup length, air core diameter, cone angle, and Sauter mean diameter. It was found that computationally this method is not as expensive as the Eulerian approach and good agreement with the test data was achieved.