The present work describes the main findings derived from CFD simulations of the swirl stabilized spray flame experimentally investigated by Sheen [1]. Scale Adaptive Simulations (SAS) have been performed using Flamelet Generated Manifold (FGM) for combustion modelling and a Eulerian-Lagrangian approach for liquid phase description. Results highlight the capabilities of SAS in predicting the main characteristics of the analysed turbulent spray flame, leading to appreciable enhancements with respect to RANS results in terms of both velocity and temperature distributions.