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Non-equilibrium dissociating flow over spheres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

C.-Y. Wen  and
H. G. Hornung
C.-Y. Wen
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Da-Yeh Institute of Technology, Taiwan.
H. G. Hornung
Affiliation:
Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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Abstract

Previous work on the correlation of dissociative non-equilibrium effects on the flow field in front of blunt bodies considered the dependence of the dimensionless shock stand-off distance on the dimensionless dissociation rate immediately after the normal shock in the simple case of a diatomic gas with only one reaction. In this paper, the correlation is corrected to take into account the additional parameter of the dimensionless free-stream kinetic energy, and extended to the case of complex gas mixtures with many species and many reactions, by introducing a new reaction rate parameter that has a clear physical meaning, and leads to an approximate theory for the stand-off distance. Extensive new experimental results and numerical computations of air, nitrogen and carbon dioxide flow over spheres were obtained over a large range of total enthalpy. The results comprise surface heat flux measurements and differential interferograms. Both experimental results and numerical computations substantiate the approximate theory.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 299 , 25 September 1995 , pp. 389 - 405
Copyright
© 1995 Cambridge University Press

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