The dynamics of inertial particles in underexpanded jets: An experimental study

Taehoon Kim, Rui Ni, Jesse Capecelatro, Yuan Yao, Gregory Shallcross, Manish Mehta, Jason Rabinovitch

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Abstract

Although the dynamics of heavy inertial particles interacting with complex flow has been studied extensively, most previous works focused on the incompressible flow regime, and the understanding of particle-laden flow in the sonic to supersonic regimes is still limited. Here, we introduce a new particle-laden high-speed jet facility to fill this gap. For this facility, to control both the mass loading and particle slip velocity independently, a particle feeding system consisting of a particle injector and a particle accelerator was included in the jet facility. The information of both phases were obtained using the ultra-high-speed diagnostic systems by leveraging a camera that can operate at 2-10 millions fps. The gas-phase dynamics was acquired using a Schlieren imaging system and the particle phase was measured using a particle shadow tracking method. Measurements of both the particle-free and particle-laden underexpanded jets in the nearfield zone were acquired, and their statistics are discussed. These new results will provide a rich dataset both for studying compressible multiphase flow problems and for validating numerical schemes developed for this regime.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAIAA Scitech 2020 Forum
Pages1-10
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
EventAIAA Scitech Forum, 2020 - Orlando, United States
Duration: 6 Jan 202010 Jan 2020

Publication series

NameAIAA Scitech 2020 Forum
Volume1 PartF

Conference

ConferenceAIAA Scitech Forum, 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityOrlando
Period6/01/2010/01/20

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