Abstract
The warm spray gun was developed to make a coating of temperature-sensitive material, such as titanium, on a substrate. The gun has a combustion chamber followed by a mixing chamber, in which the combustion gas is mixed with the nitrogen gas at room temperature. The temperature in the gun can be controlled in the range of about 1500 - 2500 K by adjusting the mass flow rate of nitrogen gas. The mixed gas is accelerated to supersonic speed through a converging-diverging nozzle followed by a straight passage. In this paper, the performance of the warm spray gun is investigated by the simulation program in order to deeply understand the performance of the warm spray gun. The gas flow as well as the velocity and temperature of titanium particle inside and outside the gun are predicted by the numerical simulation.
