Research on Flow Field Characteristics of Composite Spiral Abrasive Flows
In response to the precision machining of frictionless aluminum alloy cylinder with ano-dized oxide films,a composite spiral abrasive flow polishing method was proposed.A simulation mod-el was established to analyze the collision between particles and the wall in polishing processes,and the influences of particle velocity in different directions on polishing were investigated.The processing mechanism of the composite spiral abrasive flow polishing was revealed.The simulation results show that the composite spiral motion changes the trajectory of the abrasive particles,and the addition of rotational velocity enhances the effective stress of the abrasive.The effective plastic deformation of the wall increases with the spiral groove speed.Particle image velocimetry observation experimental re-sults demonstrate that the composite spiral motion increases the rotational velocity of the abrasives and enhances the vorticity of the flow field.The experimental results show that the composite spiral abrasive flow polishing not only causes less damages to the aluminum alloy anodized film,and effec-tively improves the surface quality of the workpieces.
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