Centrifugal Convection in Rapid Rotation of Bodies Made of Cellular-Porous Materials

Gas flows inside and around rapidly rotating bodies made of cellular-porous materials are studied numerically and experimentally. Within the framework of the previously proposed physicomathematical model, an appropriate numerical algorithm is developed and tested. Internal flows and a conjugate problem with the external flow are considered. The calculated moment and dynamic pressure are in good agreement with experimentally measured characteristics of a rotating porous disk on a solid substrate. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 46–57, January–February, 2006.