Optimal performance and geometry of supersonic ejector

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 0412041-04120410

  Hewedy, N I I ^a   Hamed, Mofreh H ^a,b   Abou Taleb, F Sh ^a   Ghonim, Tarek A ^a  

^a Menoufia University   (Egypt)

^b KAFRELSHEIKH UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Ejector area ratio; Maximum ejector efficiency; Optimum ejector geometry; Supersonic flow; Two dimensional flow

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AIR EJECTORS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; DRAG REDUCTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HYDRODYNAMICS; ITERATIVE METHODS; METEOROLOGY; MIXING; OPTICAL DESIGN; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

AREA RATIOS; BOUNDARY LAYER EQUATIONS; DEVELOPING FLOW; EJECTOR GEOMETRY; FINITE DIFFERENCE (FD); FLOW REGIMES; MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY; MIXING LENGTH (ML); NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; ON FLOW; OPERATING CONDITIONS; OPERATION PARAMETERS; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCES; OPTIMUM EFFICIENCY; OPTIMUM GEOMETRIES; PRESSURE RATIO (PR); SHEAR LAYERS; SUPERSONIC EJECTOR; TIME AVERAGING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D);

EJECTORS (PUMPS);

EID: 47049100924     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2903742     Document Type: Article

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