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Source-sink flow in a gas centrifuge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

Takuya Matsuda ,
Takeo Sakurai  and
Hidenori Takeda
Takuya Matsuda
Affiliation:
Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Takeo Sakurai
Affiliation:
Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Hidenori Takeda
Affiliation:
Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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Abstract

We consider steady non-axisymmetric source-sink flow of a perfect gas in a rapidly rotating circular cylinder for the case in which the sources and the sinks are distributed on the top and bottom. We apply a linearized analysis to a small perturbation from the state of rigid-body rotation. We show that the radial pressure gradient plays an important role in the determination of the axisymmetric part of the flow field and that the effects of viscosity and thermal conductivity govern the overall configuration of the non-axisymmetric part. We also show that the transport of gas in the main inner flow is axial and that radial transport is confined to the horizontal boundary layers.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 69 , Issue 1 , 13 May 1975 , pp. 197 - 208
Copyright
© 1975 Cambridge University Press

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