Liquid Metal Fuel Combustion Mechanics

Abstract

The modeling of the droplet formation at the gas/liquid boundary interface of a gaseous jet injected into a liquid metal bath and the turbulent mixing of the resultant two-phase (gas/liquid droplets) mixture is presented as a preliminary to the analysis of the liquid metal fuel combustion problem. The model is used to predict velocity and liquid droplet fraction distributions across the mixing zone and along the centerline of the jet. These results show that the distribution of the liquid fuel droplets peaks away from the region of maximum oxidizer concentrations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA230648

Entities

People

  • Tirumalesa Duvvuri

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Chemistry
  • Combustion
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Energy
  • Energy Transfer
  • Flow Fields
  • Fluid Flow
  • Fuel Sprays
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Transfer
  • Ignition
  • Injectors
  • Mechanics
  • Particles
  • Simulations
  • Turbulent Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Chemistry
  • Physics

Readers

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.
  • Rocket Propulsion.