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In this paper, a computational fluid flow model was adopted to investigate the effect of varying atomization gas pressure (P 0) on the gas flow field in supersonic gas atomization. The influence of P 0 on static pressure and velocity magnitude of the central axis of the flow field was also examined. The numerical results indicate that the maximum gas velocity within the gas field increases with increasing P 0. The aspiration pressure (ΔP) is found to decrease as P 0 increases at a lower atomization gas pressure. However, at a higher atomization gas pressure increasing P 0 causes the opposite: the higher atomization gas pressure, the higher aspiration pressure. The alternation of ΔP is caused by the variations of stagnation point pressure and location of Mach disk, while hardly by the location of stagnation point. A radical pressure gradient is formed along the tip of the delivery tube and increases as P 0 increases.
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Zhao, X., Xu, J., Zhu, X. et al. Effect of atomization gas pressure variation on gas flow field in supersonic gas atomization. Sci. China Ser. E-Technol. Sci. 52, 3046–3053 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-009-0158-5
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