Ve. Abaltusov et al., NUMERICAL-ANALYSIS OF SINGULARITIES OF ABLATION WHEN CUTTING STRUCTURAL-MATERIALS BY A JET OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE GAS, High temperature, 34(2), 1996, pp. 275-279
It is known that the interaction between jets of high-temperature gas
and various materials may involve the ablation of those materials as a
result [1] of chemical erosion (in the presence of chemically active
components in the jet), partial melting in case the level of heat load
s is sufficient for heating the material to the temperature T exceedin
g its temperature T-m, and the evaporation of the melt. The traditiona
l concepts of the mechanism of ablation of materials under conditions
of interaction with high-temperature gas flows alone cannot provide an
explanation of the experimental results of [2, 3], which corroborate
the promise held by the use of high-temperature heterogeneous jets for
cutting and punching various structural materials (including metals a
nd alloys). This study is aimed at more specifically defining (as a re
sult of numerical investigation) the mechanism of destruction of some
structural materials under conditions of interaction with a jet of hig
h-temperature gas.