Steady nozzle flows of Bethe-Zel'dovich-Thompson fluids - substances exhibiting non-classical gasdynamic behaviour in a finite vapour-phase thermodynamic region in close proximity to the liquid-vapour saturation curve - are examined. Non-classical flow features include rarefaction shock waves, shock waves with either upstream or downstream sonic states and split shocks. Exact solutions for a mono-component single-phase fluid expanding from a reservoir into a stationary atmosphere through a conventional converging-diverging nozzle are determined within the quasi-one-dimensional inviscid flow approximation. The novel analytical approach makes it possible to elucidate the connection between the adiabatic, possibly non-isentropic flow field and the underlying local isentropic-flow features, including the possible qualitative alterations in passing through shock waves. Contrary to previous predictions based on isentropic-flow inspection, shock disintegration is found to occur also from reservoir states corresponding to a single sonic point. The global layout of the flow configurations produced by a monotonic decrease in the ambient pressure, namely the functioning regime, is examined for reservoir conditions resulting in single-phase flows. Accordingly, a classification of steady nozzle flows into 10 different functioning regimes is proposed. Flow conditions determining the transition between the different classes of flow are investigated and each functioning regime is associated with the corresponding thermodynamic region of reservoir states.
Exact solutions to non-classical steady nozzle flows of Bethe-Zel'dovich-Thompson fluids
GUARDONE, ALBERTO MATTEO ATTILIO;VIMERCATI, DAVIDE
2016-01-01
Abstract
Steady nozzle flows of Bethe-Zel'dovich-Thompson fluids - substances exhibiting non-classical gasdynamic behaviour in a finite vapour-phase thermodynamic region in close proximity to the liquid-vapour saturation curve - are examined. Non-classical flow features include rarefaction shock waves, shock waves with either upstream or downstream sonic states and split shocks. Exact solutions for a mono-component single-phase fluid expanding from a reservoir into a stationary atmosphere through a conventional converging-diverging nozzle are determined within the quasi-one-dimensional inviscid flow approximation. The novel analytical approach makes it possible to elucidate the connection between the adiabatic, possibly non-isentropic flow field and the underlying local isentropic-flow features, including the possible qualitative alterations in passing through shock waves. Contrary to previous predictions based on isentropic-flow inspection, shock disintegration is found to occur also from reservoir states corresponding to a single sonic point. The global layout of the flow configurations produced by a monotonic decrease in the ambient pressure, namely the functioning regime, is examined for reservoir conditions resulting in single-phase flows. Accordingly, a classification of steady nozzle flows into 10 different functioning regimes is proposed. Flow conditions determining the transition between the different classes of flow are investigated and each functioning regime is associated with the corresponding thermodynamic region of reservoir states.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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