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Shock-induced combustion of aluminum particle clusters investigated with resolved sharp-interface two-dimensional simulations

Pratik Das and H. S. Udaykumar

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 6, 083201 – Published 30 August, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.6.083201

Abstract

The vaporization and combustion of clusters of aluminum particles in shocked flows is studied through interface-resolved 2D numerical simulations. These mesoscale simulations elucidate, for the first time, aspects of vaporization and burning in molten aluminum (Al) particle clusters that are markedly different from an isolated burning Al particle. Unsteadiness due to shock-generated baroclinic vorticity (inviscid mechanisms) and interactions between the wakes of molten Al particles (viscous mechanisms) are found to have significant effects; vortical mixing facilitates kinetically limited combustion of the particles located upstream in the cluster. Whereas, for particles located downstream in the cluster, the interaction with the low-speed, oxygen-lean wake of the upstream particles leads to diffusion-limited combustion. Results show that particles in a cluster have lower rates of vaporization and combustion than isolated particles under the same overall flow conditions. To isolate inviscid and viscous effects, the flame structure and vaporization rate for particles in a cluster are quantified in terms of local flow conditions, i.e., the local Mach number, Reynolds number, location of a particle in the cluster, and volume fraction. The results obtained in this study will be useful in understanding and modeling the mesoscale physics of shock-induced burning of explosively dispersed reactive aluminum particles.

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 6, 083201– Published 30 August, 2021
  • Received 24 January 2021
  • Accepted 19 July 2021
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