Log-Normal Melt Pulsation in Close-Coupled Gas Atomization

Atomization Uniformity in Gas -

There are two important aspects to good injector performance in rocket engines—the atomization performance (droplet size and distribution, for example) and uniformity of operation (even distribution of droplets in time and space). In general, both of these aspects are affected by the geometry and operating conditions of the injector. In studying atomization performance, prior work has largely f...

Flow mechanisms in high pressure gas atomization

Very fine (d < 10/~m) metal and alloy powders can be produced efficiently by a high pressure gas atomization (HPGA) technique. Rapid solidification processing, metal injection molding, thermal spraying and other emerging powder-processing approaches benefit from the use of such fine powders. This paper reports on the results of an investigation of gas atomization process dynamics with emphasis ...

Coupled pulsation and translation of two gas bubbles in a liquid

We present and analyse a model for the spherical pulsations and translational motions of a pair of interacting gas bubbles in an incompressible liquid. The model is derived rigorously in the context of potential flow theory and contains all terms up to and including fourth order in the inverse separation distance between the bubbles. We use this model to study the cases of both weak and moderat...

Hybrid Gas Atomization for Powder Production

Model of coupled pulsation and translation of a gas bubble and rigid particle.

A model of the interaction of a spherical gas bubble and a rigid spherical particle is derived as a coupled system of second-order differential equations using Lagrangian mechanics. The model accounts for pulsation and translation of the bubble as well as translation of the particle in an infinite, incompressible liquid. The model derived here is accurate to order R(5)d(5), where R is a charact...