Development of an Analytical Method for Predicting Flow in a Supersonic Air Ejector

Department of Power Engineering Equipment, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Liberec, Studentska 2, 46117, Liberec, the Czech Republic

^a jan.kracik@tul.cz

Published online: 28 March 2016

Abstract

The article deals with development of an analytical method for predicting flow in an ejector with twelve supersonic nozzles, which are located at the periphery of the mixing chamber of the ejector. Supersonic primary air stream makes the investigation more complex. The secondary air (atmospheric) is sucked in direction of the ejector axis. The shape of the mixing chamber is convergent – divergent and a throat is formed behind the primary nozzles. Each of the primary nozzles can be treated independently so there can be various number of nozzles under operation in the ejector. According to previous investigations, constant pressure mixing is assumed to occur inside a part of the mixing chamber. The method under investigation is considered for isentropic flow in the first approximation and after that the stagnation pressure corrections at the inlets are considered. Furthermore, the decrease in stagnation pressure in the mixing chamber is considered to take losses in the mixing chamber and diffuser into account. The numerical data of the stagnation pressure has been obtained from Ansys Fluent software. In addition, a comparison with previous experimental results is introduced.