Dependence of Shock Characteristics on Droplet Size in Supersonic Two-Phase Mixtures
| Autor: | C. T. Crowe, W. J. Comfort |
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| Rok vydání: | 1980 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Fluids Engineering. 102:54-58 |
| ISSN: | 1528-901X 0098-2202 |
| DOI: | 10.1115/1.3240624 |
| Popis: | In a dispersed two-phase flow, the mixture chokes at a velocity well below the vapor choking velocity, as shown by the velocity at the throat of a converging-diverging, two-phase, supersonic nozzle. The formation and abruptness of a normal shock wave in a two-phase mixture depends strongly on the coupling between phases, particularly upon droplet size. As droplet size becomes small, the mixture behaves as a continuum, and sharp discontinuities can occur at velocities above the two-phase choking velocity but below the vapor sonic velocity. An approximate analysis is performed to incidate the droplet size at which continuum behavior might be expected to occur. A numerical model, which includes the drag, buoyancy, Basset force, and the force associated with the virtual mass effect, is used to show droplet-size dependence in two-phase normal shock waves. For the examples presented, continuum behavior apparently is approached at droplet diameters between 1 and 2 μm, even through normal shock waves. |
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