Turbulent Shear Flows in Laser Nozzles and Cavities.
Abstract
An invariant second-order closure program for compressible, turbulent, reacting shear flows is being developed. The development of models for the third and higher-order correlations that appear in the transport equations has been completed. A 'typical eddy' box model has been developed for computation of higher-roder scalar correlations involving species, temperatures and reaction rate fluctuations. A single species second-order closure program for compressible shear flows has been applied to study a simulation of the mixing region in a HF chemical laser. Considerable insight into the complex processes occurring in laser cavities has been achieved. The results show that the assumptions used in the eddy viscosity and the turbulent kinetic energy closure methods are not completely valid for nonequilibrium flows such as in the chemical laser system. The results of studies of other shear flows with the same invariant second-order model are in generally good agreement with experimental measurements. (Modified author abstract)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1974
- Accession Number
- ADA000572
Entities
People
- Ashok K. Varma
- E. Stokes Fishburne
- Robert A. Beddini
- Roger D. Sullivan