Eur. Phys. J. D 28, 423-433 (2004)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2004-00012-8

3–D numerical simulation of fully-coupled particle heating in ICPTs

¹ Dipartimento di Ingegneria delle Costruzioni Meccaniche, Nucleari, Aeronautiche e di Metallurgia (DIEM) and Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca per le Applicazioni della Matematica (CIRAM), Università di Bologna, via Saragozza 8, 40123 Bologna, Italy
² Dipartimento di Ingegneria delle Costruzioni Meccaniche, Nucleari, Aeronautiche e di Metallurgia (DIEM), Università di Bologna, viale del Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy

Corresponding author: ^a colombo@ciram.ing.unibo.it

Received: 5 September 2003
Revised: 5 January 2004
Published online: 10 February 2004

Abstract

Numerical simulations of the trajectory and heating history of powders injected with a carrier-gas into inductively coupled plasma torches working at atmospheric pressure have been performed in the framework of a 3–D FLUENT-based model, taking into account the effects of coupling between particles and plasma. In this paper, we present a selection of the results obtained for different operating conditions of the torch and for different characteristics of the injected particles.