Computational study of particle in-flight behavior in the HVOF thermal spray process

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 61, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 6540-6552

  Li, Mingheng ^a   Christofides, Panagiotis D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CFD; HVOF thermal spray; Modeling; Particle in flight behavior; Stochastic particle tracking

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GAS DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPHASE FLOW;

HIGH VELOCITY OXYGEN-FUEL (HVOF); HVOF THERMAL SPRAY; INJECTION POSITION; MODELING; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL TRACKING; PARTICLE IN-FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; STOCHASTIC PARTICLE TRACKING;

SPRAYED COATINGS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GAS DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; SPRAYED COATINGS;

EID: 33746993106     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2006.05.050     Document Type: Article

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