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http://dx.doi.org/10.5139/JKSAS.2008.36.12.1171

LES of Turbulent Mixing of Non-Reactive Flow in Gas Generator  

Lee, Chang-Jin (건국대학교 항공우주공학과)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences / v.36, no.12, 2008 , pp. 1171-1179 More about this Journal
Abstract
LES analysis was conducted with in-house CFD code to investigate the turbulence evolution and interaction due to turbulence ring and splash plate in the gas generator. The calculation results show that the installation of turbulence ring can introduce additional turbulences and significantly improve turbulent mixing in the downstream flow. However, the addition of splash plate in the downstream of TR(Turbulence Ring) brings totally different shape of perturbation energy and enstrophy distribution into turbulent mixing. This enhancement can be done by the formation of the intensively strong vorticity and mixing behind the plate. Pressure drop was found to be a reasonable level of about 1% or less of initial pressure in all calculation cases. Also, calculation results revealed that the variation of shape and intrusion length of TR did not greatly affect the characteristics of turbulent mixing in the chamber. Even though the effect of installation location of splash plate on the turbulent mixing was not investigated yet, calculation results conclude the addition of splash plate leads to the increase in turbulent mixing with an acceptable pressure drop.
Keywords
Gas generator; LES(large eddy simulation); turbulent mixing; turbulence ring;
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