Numerical analysis of reacting nonequilibrium two-dimensional nozzle flows including boundary layer and shock waves
Abstract
It is noted that a previous paper presented a method to solve coupled equations describing nonequilibrium chemical processes in a gas flowing through a two-dimensional nozzle. The gas was assumed to be inviscid and shock-free. The present paper is an extension of this method; boundary layer analysis is included and shock waves are allowed to develop in the inviscid flow. The numerical procedure is then applied to nozzle flows of interest in high power CO2 gas dynamic lasers. Finally, the effects of nozzle geometry and wall conditions on the performance of a combustion-driven gasdynamic laser are studied.
- Publication:
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Gas-Flow and Chemical Lasers
- Pub Date:
- 1979
- Bibcode:
- 1979gfcl.proc..403C
- Keywords:
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- Boundary Layer Flow;
- Combustible Flow;
- Computational Fluid Dynamics;
- Nonequilibrium Flow;
- Nozzle Flow;
- Shock Waves;
- Carbon Dioxide Lasers;
- Gas Flow;
- Gasdynamic Lasers;
- High Power Lasers;
- Inviscid Flow;
- Numerical Analysis;
- Two Dimensional Flow;
- Lasers and Masers