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ISSN Imprimir: 1093-3611
ISSN En Línea: 1940-4360
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THE CHARACTER OF FLOW IN THE FREE JET CLOSE TO AN ARC HEATER OUTPUT
SINOPSIS
The free jet of hot gas flowing out the output orifice of a hybrid water-argon arc heater is studied with emphasis on its interaction with the surrounding environment. The problem has been partly dealt with in the previous papers [1,2] for the region rather far from the output (nearly 40 cm from the output). In the present paper, attention is concentrated on the region close to the output of the arc heater where both the measuring method and equipment, and the computation process must be different, especially with respect to much higher temperatures and velocities. This article aims to deriving the method enabling to describe the interaction of free jet of the mixture of argon and water vapours with air of atmospheric pressure.
The designed mathematical model is based on the continuity and momentum equations determining the velocity field and is completed with the continuity equations for individual original components of plasma jet (argon, water vapour) including diffusion. The input experimental data of the model are temperature distribution measured by spectroscopy and axial velocity as described in [3,4]. The composition of the plasma jet at the arc heater's output has been calculated using emission coefficients of ArI (696.54 nm) and OI (715.67 nm) spectral lines [3]. Necessary data on thermodynamic and transport properties of individual species of the gas mixture have been taken from [5]. The designed model enables to compute the velocity field and to determine the influence of the coefficients characterizing laminar and turbulent part of viscosity and diffusion on the distribution of original components across the jet. Finally, the data on the diffusion of components computed by the designed method are compared with the data obtained from spectroscopic measurement.
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