Title
Throat Length Effect on the Flow Patterns in Off-Design Conical Nozzles
Date Issued
01 January 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Belgrade University
Abstract
In the present work, a flow field study was performed for off-design conical nozzles with non-circular cylindrical throat sections such as those found in experimental sounding rocket motor applications. The flow field was simulated with the RANS model in ANSYS-Fluent R16.2 code for 2D domains. The governing equations used are conservation of mass, momentum, energy, and state. Sutherland's equation for viscosity as a function of temperature and the Spalart-Allmaras turbulence model was used to simulate overexpanded flow turbulence. The results showed pressure and Mach number fluctuations as the throat length increased. In the throat section, it is concluded that for the length range of 5 to 15% of the throat diameter, the flow accelerates without the presence of internal shock.
Start page
271
End page
282
Volume
50
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Matemáticas aplicadas
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85132658328
Source
FME Transactions
ISSN of the container
14512092
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