SOME PHYSICAL CONSIDERATIONS OF THE HYDRODYNAMIC STABILITY OF PARALLEL FLOWS OF A DUSTY GAS,

Abstract

Some of the physical implications of the stability of parallel flows of a dusty gas are studied. The energy balance of such a disturbed flow shows that the increase or decrease of the overall (gas plus particle) disturbance kinetic energy depends upon the relative magnitude of (1) energy dissipation due to the usual gas viscosity and augmented by the work done due to particle-gas interaction, and (2) energy conversion from the mean flow to the disturbances by both the gas and the particle Reynolds shear stresses. The viscous sublayer structure, where viscosity is known to be destabilizing, is deduced. It is shown that augmented phase shift of the gas velocity components, due to particle-gas interaction, tends to decrease the gas Reynolds shear stress but is eventually offset by their relative magnitude increase.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0622565

Entities

People

  • J. T. C. Liu

Organizations

  • Princeton University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Conversion
  • Dissipation
  • Energy
  • Energy Conversion
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Particles
  • Phase Shift
  • Shear Stresses
  • Stresses
  • Viscosity

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Economics
  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.