Boundary layer on a blunt body in a flow of dusty gas

Abstract

The problem of interaction of gas-dust flows with solid surfaces arose in connection with the study of the motion of aircraft in a dusty atmosphere [1–2], the motion of a gas suspension in power generators, and in a number of other applications [3]. The presence of a disperse admixture may lead to a significant increase in the heat fluxes [4] and to erosion of the surface [5]. These phenomena are due to the joint influence of several factors — the change in the structure of the carrier-phase boundary layer due to the presence of the particles, collisions of the particles with the surface, roughness of the ablating surface, and so forth. This paper continues an investigation begun earlier [6–7] into the influence of particles on the structure of the dynamical and thermal two-phase boundary layer formed around a blunt body in a flow. The model of the dusty gas [8] has an incompressible carrier phase. The method of matched asymptotic expansions [9] is used to obtain the equations of the two-phase boundary layer. In the frame-work of the refined classification made by Stulov [6], it is shown that the form of the boundary layer equations is different in the presence and absence of inertial precipitation of the particles. The equations are solved numerically in the neighborhood of the stagnation point of the blunt body. The temperature and phase velocity distributions in the boundary layer, and also the friction coefficients and the heat transfer of the carrier phase are found for a wide range of the determining parameters. In the case of an admixture of low-inertia particles that are not precipitated on the body, it is shown that even when the mass concentration of the particles in the undisturbed flow is small their accumulation in the boundary layer can lead to a sharp increase in the thermal fluxes at the stagnation point.