Abstract

This paper identifies the location of water vapour spontaneous condensation during air expansion in convergent-divergent nozzles. The comprehensive analysis proposed herein includes an analytical solution together with experimental and numerical investigations. Numerical calculations are performed using an in-house computational fluid dynamics code based on the solution of Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes equations supplemented with additional partial differential equations modelling the condensation process of water vapour contained in atmospheric air. Experiments were carried out using an in-house facility adapted for measurements of atmospheric air transonic flows.