FRICTIONAL ASPECTS OF OPERATION FOR CENTRIFUGAL ACCELERATORS WITH RADIAL BLADES

Abstract

The work aims to determine the friction effect and change the velocity and kinetic energy during the movement of solid particles along the rotating machine's radial blade surface. It has been previously shown that the influence of the frictional forces of the particle against the rotor disc is negligible compared to the influence of the centrifugal force and the friction force of the particle against the rotor blade. Based on the analysis of the differential equation solution for particle motion along the surface of the blades, it was established that the total sliding velocity of a particle increase intensively in the initial period of motion and approaches asymptotically to the values described by a linear function, practically independent of the initial position of the particle. The obtained analytical expressions enable the determination of change in the relative and total velocity of the particle, the angle between the respective velocity vectors and its kinetic energy. Changes in the values of these parameters were also estimated for a wide range of variability of the friction coefficient.