Supersonic nozzle was studied numerically for different pressure ratios at constant nozzle-throat Reynolds number (Ret) of 5.9 × 106. Two different values of exit-to-throat ratios, e.g. Ae/At = 1.5 and 2.0 were investigated to analyze the interaction of shock and rarefaction waves behind nozzle exit using rhoCentralFoam solver. The results show that overexpanded condition occurred for both nozzle with 1.5 and 2 exit-to-throat ratios with pressure ratio of p0/p = 5. Oblique shock waves were formed for both cases at the nozzle exit with much stronger shock occurred for Ae/At = 2.0 as appeared in the formation of Mach disk. When the pressure ratio was increased further for the case of Ae/At = 1.5, rarefaction waves was generated, resulting in flow acceleration to much higher Mach number in an underexpanded condition. The interaction between oblique shock and rarefaction waves in nozzle with Ae/At = 1.5 and p0/p = 5 showed a similar pattern with that of Ae/At = 2 and p0/p = 10.


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    Title :

    Computational study of interaction between shock and rarefaction waves in expanded supersonic nozzle



    Conference:

    7TH INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON AEROSPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY – ISAST 2019 ; 2019 ; Jakarta, Indonesia


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2020-04-21


    Size :

    4 pages





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English