Title : ( Simulation of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer Including Phase Change during the Impact of Semi-Molten Particles )
Authors: Seyyed Sina Alavi , Mohammad Passandideh-Fard , J. Mostaghimi ,Abstract
A numerical method is proposed in this paper which is capable of modeling the impact and deposition of semimolten particles. By attributing a high viscosity to the solid region, simulating the motion of solid cores including solidification/melting is made possible inside the particle. The Navier-Stokes equations are solved in combination with the Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) technique to track the free surface of the particles. In addition, the heat transfer including phase change is modeled using the enthalpy method. The viscous terms are treated implicitly to relax the restrictions associated with small computational time-steps in explicit formulations. Several case studies with operating conditions of a typical thermal spray process are simulated. These cases include the impact of molten and semi-molten nickel particles in an atmospheric plasma spray process (APS). The effects of various parameters such as particle solid-core diameter, initial velocity and temperature are investigated. The simulations show that the size of the solid core has an important effect on the amount of particle splashing during the impact.
Keywords
, Semi-molten particles, Thermal spray processes, Volume-of-Fluid (VOF), High viscosity method, Solidification and heat Transfer@inproceedings{paperid:1029113,
author = {Alavi, Seyyed Sina and Passandideh-Fard, Mohammad and J. Mostaghimi},
title = {Simulation of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer Including Phase Change during the Impact of Semi-Molten Particles},
booktitle = {ASME 2012 Summer Heat Transfer Conference HT2012},
year = {2012},
location = {Puerto Rico, USA},
keywords = {Semi-molten particles; Thermal spray
processes; Volume-of-Fluid (VOF); High viscosity method;
Solidification and heat Transfer},
}
%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Simulation of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer Including Phase Change during the Impact of Semi-Molten Particles
%A Alavi, Seyyed Sina
%A Passandideh-Fard, Mohammad
%A J. Mostaghimi
%J ASME 2012 Summer Heat Transfer Conference HT2012
%D 2012