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Effect Of Carrier Gas Pressure On Condensation In A Supersonic Nozzle, Barbara Ellen Wyslouzil, Gerald Wilemski, M. G. Beals, Michael B. Frish
Effect Of Carrier Gas Pressure On Condensation In A Supersonic Nozzle, Barbara Ellen Wyslouzil, Gerald Wilemski, M. G. Beals, Michael B. Frish
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Supersonic nozzle experiments were performed with a fixed water or ethanol vapor pressure and varying amounts of nitrogen to test the hypothesis that carrier gas pressure affects the onset of condensation. Such an effect might occur if nonisothermal nucleation were important under conditions of excess carrier gas in the atmospheric pressure range, as has been suggested by Ford and Clement [J. Phys. A 22, 4007 (1989)]. Although a small increase was observed in the condensation onset temperature as the stagnation pressure was reduced from 3 to 0.5 atm, these changes cannot be attributed to any nonisothermal effects. The pulsed nozzle …