Numerical Study on the Gas-Particle Two-Phase Jet Flow during Canister Launching Process

The Euler-Lagrange model of Jet-gas and AL2O3 is established to study the impact of gas-particle jet flow during canister launching process. The gas phase is the Navier-Stokes equation of the two-component transport of gas and air, and the turbulence model is the realizable two-equation model. The airflow flux is numerically discretized via AUSM format, and the viscous dissipation flux is a second-order central difference. The movement trajectories of particles with different diameters ranging from 1 to 100 μm and the distribution characteristics of jet flow dynamic parameters in the launching box are studied. The jet impingement flow field results of gas-particle two-phase flow are compared with those without particle phase. The results show that the particle phase has a retardation and heat transfer effect on the expansion of jet flow, which affects the distribution of jet flow parameters in the launch canister. Furthermore, compared with the pure jet flow impingement effect, the velocity of the two-phase jet flow along the central axis decreases and the temperature increases. Meanwhile, the trajectory of the particle phase is related to the particle diameter. As the diameter of the particles becomes smaller, the flow ability is better and affected by turbulence, and a random movement area in the downstream area of the jet is formed. As the diameter of the particles becomes larger, a particle aggregation area is formed on the jet axis due to inertial force.