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NASA NTRS1987

Non-isothermal elastoviscoplastic snap-through and creep buckling of shallow arches

The problem of buckling of shallow arches under transient thermomechanical loads is investigated. The analysis is based on nonlinear geometric and constitutive relations, and is expressed in a rate form. The material constitutive equations are capable of reproducing all non-isothermal, elasto-viscoplastic characteristics. The solution scheme is capable of predicting response which includes pre and postbuckling with creep and plastic effects. The solution procedure is demonstrated through several examples which include both creep and snap-through behavior.

Simitses, G. J.↗
NASA NTRS1988

Non-isothermal buckling behavior of viscoplastic shell structures

Described are the mathematical model and solution methodologies for analyzing the structural response of thin, metallic elasto-viscoplastic shell structures under large thermomechanical loads and their non-isothermal buckling behavior. Among the system responses associated with these loads and conditions are snap-through, buckling, thermal buckling, and creep buckling. This geometric and material nonlinearities (of high order) can be anticipated and are considered in the model and the numerical treatment.

Riff, Richard↗
NASA NTRS1972

Non-isothermal laminar flow of gases through cooled tubes.

Numerical solutions of the laminar-flow equations in differential form are presented for gas flows through cooled tubes. For nearly isothermal flow there is good agreement with available experimental data, as is also found for the case of a large amount of wall cooling. This correspondence along with a check on the satisfaction of the global momentum and energy constraints allowed an appraisal of the effect of wall cooling on flow through tubes. In general, the effect of wall cooling was to decrease the wall friction and the change in pressure along tubes, but the average heat-transfer coefficient did not vary much.

Back, L. H.↗
NASA NTRS1975

Energy transfer by radiation in non-grey atomic gases in isothermal and non-isothermal slabs

A multiband model for the absorption coefficient of atomic hydrogen-helium plasmas is constructed which includes continuum and line contributions. Emission from 28 stronger lines of 106 that have been screened is considered, of which 21 are from hydrogen and 7 belong to helium, with reabsorption due to line-line, line-continuum overlap accurately accounted for. The model is utilized in the computation of intensities and fluxes from shock-heated slabs of 85% H2-15% He mixtures for slab thicknesses from 1 to 30 cm, temperature from 10,000 to 20,000 K, and for different densities. In conjunction with the multiband model, simple numerical schemes have been devised which provide a quick and comprehensive way of computing radiative energy transfer in nonisothermal and nongrey gases.

Poon, P. T. Y.↗
NASA NTRS1982

Non-isothermal effects on SO2 absorption by water droplets. I - Model development. II - Results and discussion

An analytic model of SO2 absorption in a falling water droplet is developed and a simulation of SO2 washout is performed. Nonisothermic effects on drop growth, droplet physical parameters, reaction rates, and multicomponent diffusion are treated in the model. The gas-liquid interface is assumed to be at equilibrium, and interfacial resistance is negligible. Raindrops are simulated as falling from a 2 km height through an atmospheric region containing SO2. The droplets decrease in size from evaporation and cooling, and their slightly basic pH aids SO2 absorption. The simulation indicates higher SO2 absorption at higher altitudes, and desorption may occur at ground level. Isothermal effects are concluded to be significant, and quantification of effects will depend on further modelling.

Reda, M.↗
NASA NTRS1981

Laminar free convection boundary layer heat transfer over non-isothermal surface

Accurate heat transfer results are provided for the case of nonisothermal objects. A steady, laminar, free convection boundary layer flow over two-dimensional or rotationally symmetrical bodies of nonuniform surface temperature situated in an ambient fluid of undisturbed temperature is considered analytically. The surface heat flux is given in terms of the Nusselt number and wall derivatives of universal functions for Prandtl numbers of 0.72 and 100 are provided. The method is shown to be valid up to a temperature/radius ratio of 130 deg.

Lin, F. N.↗
NASA NTRS1982

Correlation and prediction of thermophoretic and inertial effects on particle deposition from non-isothermal turbulent boundary layers

The problem of small particle deposition which can cause hot stage corrosion and/or fouling in combustion turbines operating on fuels containing ash or inorganic salts is investigated. Two boundary layer transport phenomena are shown to assume importance in these cases: particle thermophoresis (migration down a temperature gradient) and particle inertia. Thermophoretic and eddy transport across turbulent boundary layers without and with particle inertia effects are quantitatively analyzed. The effects of streamwise blade curvature on particle transport across turbulent boundary layers are determined. It is shown that these phenomena destroy the analogy between mass and heat transfer or mass and momentum transfer. Also studied are the effects on particle deposition of distributed or localized wall blowing, surface roughness, and mainstream turbulence.

Rosner, D. E.↗
NASA NTRS1984

Analysis of large, non-isothermal elastic-visco-plastic deformations

The development of a general mathematical model and solutions of test problems to analyze large nonisothermal elasto-visco-plastic deformatisms of structures is discussed. Geometric and material type nonlinearities of higher order are present in the development of the mathematical model and in the developed solution methodology.

Riff, R.↗
NASA NTRS1987

Methods and first results of plasma non-isothermal parameters measurements in meteor trails

There is no reliable experimental evidence so far of either the presence or absence of nonisothermal effects in newly formed meteor trails. Neither is there a common opinion on the most effective mechanism of electron cooling. According to the laboratory experimental data collisions of atomic and molecular particles of all kinds having velocities of 10 to 70/kms often yields 1 eV electrons and not infrequently some have energies reaching several electron volts. These highest energy electrons are referred to as superhot electrons. The method of measurement and the results of these measurements in meteor trails are discussed.

Kostylev, K. K.↗
NASA NTRS1982

Rational engineering correlations of diffusional and inertial particle deposition behavior in non-isothermal forced convection environments

A multiparameter correlation approach to the study of particle deposition rates in engineering applications is discussed with reference to two specific examples, one dealing with thermophoretically augmented small particle convective diffusion and the other involving larger particle inertial impaction. The validity of the correlations proposed here is demonstrated through rigorous computations including all relevant phenomena and interactions. Such representations are shown to minimize apparent differences between various geometric, flow, and physicochemical parameters, allowing many apparently different physicochemical situations to be described in a unified way.

Rosner, D. E.↗
NASA NTRS1973

Low-frequency instabilities and plasma turbulence

A theoretical and experimental study is reported of steady-state and time-dependent characteristics of the positive column and the hollow cathode discharge (HCD). The steady state of a non-isothermal, cylindrical positive column in an axial magnetic field is described by three moment equations in the plasma approximation. Volume generation of electron-ion pairs by single-stage ionization, the presence of axial current, and collisions with neutrals are considered. The theory covers the range from the low pressure, collisionless regime to the intermediate pressure, collisional regime. It yields radial profiles of the charged particle velocities, density, potential, electron and ion temperatures, and demonstrates similarity laws for the positive column. The results are compared with two moment theories and with experimental data on He, Ar and Hg found in the literature for a wide range of pressures. A simple generalization of the isothermal theory for an infinitely long cylinder in an axial magnetic field to the case of a finite column with axial current flow is also demonstrated.

Ilic, D. B.↗
NASA NTRS1973

Fundamental study of transpiration cooling

Isothermal and non-isothermal pressure drop data and heat transfer data generated on porous 304L stainless steel wire forms, sintered spherical stainless steel powder, and sintered spherical OFHC copper powder are reported and correlated. Pressure drop data was collected over a temperature range from 500 R to 2000 R and heat transfer data collected over a heat flux range from 5 to 15 BTU/in2/sec. It was found that flow data could be correlated independently of transpirant temperature and type (i.e., H2, N2). It was also found that no simple relation between heat transfer coefficient and specimen porosity was obtainable.

Koh, J. C. Y.↗
NASA NTRS1974

Investigation of arterial gas occlusions

The effect of noncondensable gases on high-performance arterial heat pipes was investigated both analytically and experimentally. Models have been generated which characterize the dissolution of gases in condensate, and the diffusional loss of dissolved gases from condensate in arterial flow. These processes, and others, were used to postulate stability criteria for arterial heat pipes under isothermal and non-isothermal condensate flow conditions. A rigorous second-order gas-loaded heat pipe model, incorporating axial conduction and one-dimensional vapor transport, was produced and used for thermal and gas studies. A Freon-22 (CHCIF2) heat pipe was used with helium and xenon to validate modeling. With helium, experimental data compared well with theory. Unusual gas-control effects with xenon were attributed to high solubility.

Saaski, E. W.↗
NASA NTRS1982

Star formation - The influence of velocity fields and turbulence

It is shown that the Jeans mass for gravitational collapse can be very much reduced by the influence velocity fields, even when allowance is made for non-isothermal gas behavior. We examine the role of turbulence in establishing the initial stellar mass function and show that the flattening and/or turnover at the low mass end may be a signature of interstellar turbulence. We consider also the implications of primordial turbulence for the formation of stars in the early universe.

Hunter, J. H., Jr.↗
NASA NTRS1984

Fast algorithms for combustion kinetics calculations: A comparison

To identify the fastest algorithm currently available for the numerical integration of chemical kinetic rate equations, several algorithms were examined. Findings to date are summarized. The algorithms examined include two general-purpose codes EPISODE and LSODE and three special-purpose (for chemical kinetic calculations) codes CHEMEQ, CRK1D, and GCKP84. In addition, an explicit Runge-Kutta-Merson differential equation solver (IMSL Routine DASCRU) is used to illustrate the problems associated with integrating chemical kinetic rate equations by a classical method. Algorithms were applied to two test problems drawn from combustion kinetics. These problems included all three combustion regimes: induction, heat release and equilibration. Variations of the temperature and species mole fraction are given with time for test problems 1 and 2, respectively. Both test problems were integrated over a time interval of 1 ms in order to obtain near-equilibration of all species and temperature. Of the codes examined in this study, only CREK1D and GCDP84 were written explicitly for integrating exothermic, non-isothermal combustion rate equations. These therefore have built-in procedures for calculating the temperature.

Radhakrishnan, K.↗