Simulation of powder metal fabrication with high pressure gas atomization
A computational/analytical technique has been developed which models the physics of high pressure gas atomization. The technique uses an uncoupled approach, such that the gas flowfield is initially calculated with a commercially-available Navier-Stokes code. The liquid metal droplet breakup, dynamics, and thermodynamics, are then calculated using the pre-computed flowfield by a separate computer program written by the authors. The atomization code models the primary breakup of the liquid metal stream, tracks the droplets resulting from primary breakup through the flowfield until they undergo secondary breakup, and then tracks the subdroplets until they breakup, solidify, or leave the flowfield region of interest. The statistical properties of the metal powder produced are then computed from the characteristics of these droplets. Comparisons between experimental measurements and computations indicate that the Navier-Stokes code is predicting the gas flowfield well, and that the atomization code is properly modeling the physics of the droplet dynamics and breakup.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- OSTI ID:
- 33127
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-95-0493C; CONF-950558-1; ON: DE95008820
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: International conference on powder metallurgy and particulate materials, Seattle, WA (United States), 14-17 May 1995; Other Information: PBD: [1994]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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