Comprehensive Studies on Rarefied Jet and Jet Impingement Flows with Gas-Kinetic Methods

Comprehensive Studies on Rarefied Jet and Jet Impingement Flows with Gas-Kinetic Methods

Year:    2017

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 22 (2017), Iss. 3 : pp. 712–741

Abstract

This paper presents comprehensive studies on two closely related problems of high speed collisionless gaseous jet from a circular exit and impinging on an inclined rectangular flat plate, where the plate surface can be diffuse or specular reflective. Gas-kinetic theories are adopted to study the problems, and several crucial geometry-location and velocity-direction relations are used. The final complete results include flow-field properties such as density, velocity components, temperature and pressure, and impingement surface properties such as coefficients of pressure, shear stress and heat flux. Also included are the averaged coefficients for pressure, friction, heat flux, moment over the whole plate, and the averaged distance from the moment center to the plate center. The final results include complex but accurate integrations involving the geometry and specific speed ratios, inclination angle, and the temperature ratio. Several numerical simulations with the direct simulation Monte Carlo method validate these analytical results, and the results are essentially identical. Exponential, trigonometric, and error functions are embedded in the solutions. The results illustrate that the past simple cosine function approach is rather crude, and should be used cautiously. The gas-kinetic method and processes are heuristic and can be used to investigate other external high Knudsen number impingement flow problems, including the flow-field and surface properties for high Knudsen number jet from an exit and flat plate of arbitrary shapes. The results are expected to find many engineering applications.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2016-0165

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 22 (2017), Iss. 3 : pp. 712–741

Published online:    2017-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    30

Keywords:   

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