| Abstract: | Both experimental and theoretical investigations show that the main feature in the structure of sufficiently strongly swirling gas flows is the presence in then of reverse circulation regions whose configuration depends very strongly both on the law of swirling of the flow and the conditions at the entrance as well as on the channel geometry 1–6]. In expanding channels, the occurrence of such regions is most probable in the axial region 7, 8]. In short annular channels for which the characteristic transverse and longitudinal dimensions are of the same order, reverse flow arises in the exit part of the channel along its inner wall 6, 9]. Hitherto, the investigations have been made for single-phase gas flows. The present paper reports a numerical investigation of the influence of particles of a condensed phase on the intensity of the reverse flow and the structure of the gas flow in an annular expanding channel under conditions of thermal, mass, and mechanical interaction of the phases. The method of stabilization was used to solve the boundary-value problem. The system of equations describing the axisymmetric unsteady flow of the two-phase medium was integrated by means of Godunov's difference scheme 10, 11]. The calculations were made for different conditions of injection of the particles of the condensed phase into the channel. |
