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Effect of the weight of the admixture on the turbulence structure of a two-phase jet

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The effect of gravity on the turbulence structure of an inclined two-phase jet is evaluated according to the Prandtl theory of mixing length.

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Abbreviations

Cx :

drag coefficient for a particle

Dp :

particle diameter

gi :

components of the acceleration g due to gravity acting on a particle in the direction of jet flow (gi=g sin α) and in the direction normal to it (gi=g cos α)

V′poi ±, V′goi ± :

fluctuation components of the velocities of the particles and gas, respectively, at the end of a mole formation

Vfi :

free-fall velocity of a particle

l u :

mixing length

mp :

particle mass

t p :

length of time of particle-mole interaction

V′pi ±, V′gi ± :

positive and negative fluctuation velocities of particles and of the gas respectively, with the components u′p ±, u′g ±, v′p ±, v′g ±, k=V′goi/Vfi

V′∼i ± :

relative velocity of the gas

α :

jet inclination angle relative to the earth's surface

β :

empirical constant

δ u,δ χ :

jet boundaries in terms of velocity and concentration

η u=y/δ u :

dimensionless velocity ordinate

η χ=y/δ χ :

dimensionless concentration ordinate

χ:

admixture concentration

um, χm :

velocity and the concentration of the admixture at the jet axis

μ g :

dynamic viscosity of the gas

ρ s,ρ g :

densities of the particle material and of the gas

τ g,τ p :

shearing stresses in the gas and in the “gas” of particles

τ m,τ 0 :

shearing stresses in the mixture and in pure gas, respectively

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 422–426, March, 1981.

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Girshovich, T.A., Leonov, V.A. Effect of the weight of the admixture on the turbulence structure of a two-phase jet. Journal of Engineering Physics 40, 257–260 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00820550

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