Impact on the Performance of Micro-Nozzle Straight Exit Section

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The FLUENT6.3 software is applied to simulate the supersonic flow in micro convergent-divergent nozzle. The simulation is complemented by computing steady 2-D Navier-stokes equations to analyze the pressure contour and velocity contour inside the micro nozzle which has straight exit section or not and the length of straight exit section l. Also the performances of fluent mass coefficients and thrust force efficiencies are studied. The numerical results show: That the nozzle has straight exit section or not and the section length l affect the pressure contour and velocity contour inside the thruster. Compared to the nozzle that has no straight exit section, the minimum pressure region and the maximum velocity region are close to the center of exit in the nozzle that has straight exit section. Also the affected region is increased. When the throat Reynolds number Re is small, the flow coefficient Cd and thrust coefficient ηF firstly increase then decrease with the increase of l.

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