简介:Whencondensationoccursinsupersonicflowfields,theflowisaffectedbythelatentheatreleased.Inthepresentstudy,Navier-Stokesequationsweresolvednumericallyusinga3rd-orderMUSCLtypeTVDinite-differenceschemewithasecond-orderfractional-stepfortimeintegration,Baldwin-Lomaxmodel,thatisthealgebraicmodel,calledthezeroequationmodelwasusedinthecomputations.Theeffectsofinitialconditions(initialdegreeofsupersaturationandtotaltemperatureinthereservoir)oncondensingflowofmoistairinasupersoniccircularhalfnozzlewereinvestigated.Inthiscase,theeffectofcondensationontheboundarylayerwasalsodiscussedindetail.Asaresultthesimulatedflowfieldswerecomparedwithexperimentaldataingoodagreement,andthevelocityandtemperatureprofileswerelargelychangedbycondensation.