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Numerical simulation of spraying aluminum/tin in an INEL delaval spray-forming nozzle

Conference ·
OSTI ID:186749
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  1. Idaho National Engineering Lab., Idaho Falls, ID (United States)

The two-phase flow in a gas atomizing, liquid metal spray nozzle is simulated using both an Eulerian-Lagrangian and an Eulerian-Eulerian analysis. The Eulerian-Lagrangian analysis couples a linearized block implicit Navier-Stokes method for the gaseous phase with a Lagrangian analysis for the droplet phase, resulting in an efficient scheme for the computation of poly-dispersed two-phase flow. The motion of the droplet phase is tracked in the computational coordinate space, resulting in improved computational efficiency; the interphase coupling terms are computed from the instantaneous distribution of the droplets rather than from trajectory information. The Eulerian-Eulerian analysis is performed using an explicit Flux-Corrected Transport (FCT) technique which closely follows the FCT development of Boris and Book. With this approach, the solid phase is treated as a pseudo-fluid continuum resulting in a rather simplified approach to modeling a dispersed two-phase flow.

OSTI ID:
186749
Report Number(s):
CONF-950201--; ISBN 0-87339-316-3
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English