Unsteady laminar compressible swirling flow with massive blowing

Roy, S and Nath, G (1992) Unsteady laminar compressible swirling flow with massive blowing. In: AIAA Journal, 30 (11). pp. 2604-2605.

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Abstract

THE study of swirling boundary layers is of considerable importance in many rotodynamic machines such as rockets, jet engines, swirl generators, swirl atomizers, arc heaters, etc. For example, the introduction of swirl in a flow acceleration device such as a nozzle in a rocket engine promises efficient mass flow control. In nuclear rockets, swirl is used to retain the uranium atoms in the rocket chamber. With these applications in mind, Back1 and Muthanna and Nath2 have obtained the similarity solutions for a low-speed three-dimensional steady laminar compressible boundary layer with swirl inside an axisymmetric surface of variable cross section. The aim of the present analysis is to study the effect of massive blowing rates on the unsteady laminar swirling compressible boundary-layer flow of an axisymmetric body of arbitrary cross section when the freestream velocity and blowing rate vary with time. The type of swirl considered here is that of a free vortex superimposed on the longitudinal flow of a compressible fluid with variable properties. The analysis is applicable to external flow over a body as well as internal flow along a surface. For the case of external flow, strong blowing can have significant use in cooling the surface of hypervelocity vehicles, particularly when ablation occurs under large aerodynamic or radiative heating, but there may not be such an important application of strong blowing in the case of internal flow. The governing partial differential equations have been solved numerically using an implicit finite difference scheme with a quasilinearization technique.3 High temperature gas effects, such as radiation, dissociation, and ionization, etc., are not investigated. The nomenclature is usually that of Ref. 4 and is listed in the full paper.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	AIAA Journal
Publisher:	American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Mathematics
Date Deposited:	30 May 2011 05:09
Last Modified:	30 May 2011 05:09
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/37974

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