Constructal design of the mixing zone inside a supersonic ejector

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Abstract

Supersonic ejectors can be used in heat powered chillers to transfer mechanical energy between the motive and the inverse cycle. Within the ejector, momentum is exchanged between a high speed flow produced by a primary nozzle and a slow current coming from the chiller evaporator. Due to the supersonic regime of the primary flow, the mixing of the two streams causes significant loss and impairs the system efficiency. Up to now, second law efficiency of ejector chillers is quite low and optimization is highly needed. The fluid dynamics of the whole ejector involves turbulent mixing, shock trains and complex wall flow, requiring CFD analyses for an adequate description. However, in order to attempt an optimization, mathematically workable models are advantageous. An analytical scheme that captures the basic features of the turbulent mixing zone is discussed here in view of a Constructal design of an ejector chiller.

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Grazzini, G., Mazzelli, F., & Milazzo, A. (2016). Constructal design of the mixing zone inside a supersonic ejector. International Journal of Heat and Technology, 34, S109–S118. https://doi.org/10.18280/ijht.34S114

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