In thermal spraying, semi-molten (or partially-melted) particles are likely to form when the sprayed particles are insufficiently heated, or when a composite material is deposited. The present 2D model serves to begin to assess the spreading behavior of a semi-molten particle when impacting a solid substrate. An Immersed-Boundary (IB) scheme was implemented in an axisymmetric fluid model to simulate fluid flow in the presence of a solid core. The IB method calculates a forcing term, which is added to the momentum equation, to enforce the no-slip boundary condition at the core surface. Results are presented for the impact of a semi-molten tin droplet of radius R for a wide range of solid core radii r, varying the drop size ratio r/R, and the impact velocity Uo.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/17451 |
| Date | 15 July 2009 |
| Creators | Wu, Tommy |
| Contributors | Mostaghimi, Javad, Bussmann, Markus |
| Source Sets | University of Toronto |
| Language | en_ca |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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