CALCULATION OF COMPRESSIBLE FLOW IN A SHORT VORTEX CHAMBER

V. V. Sorokin

UDC 532.527

A method for calculating a compressible turbulent flow 
in a short vortex chamber that incorporates calculations of the boundary 
layer at the end walls by the integral method and of the discharge 
by the theory of an ideal atomizer has been proposed. The magnitudes 
of pressure and circulation on the radius of the outlet orifice of 
the chamber, obtained in determining the boundary layer, have been 
used as input parameters in calculating the discharge, and the gas 
process has been regarded as isothermal. Favorable agreement between 
the calculated results and the experimental data has been found.

Joint Institute of Power and Nuclear Investigations "Sosny," 
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 99 Academician A. K. Krasin 
Str., Minsk, 220109, Belarus; email: vnvv@sorokin.belpak.minsk.by. 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 79, No. 5, pp. 
152-158, September-October, 2006. Original article submitted 
November 1, 2005.