Comprehensive numerical simulation analysis of flow and mass transfer by tuning inlet conditions in solution circulating technique focused to grow quality KDP crystal

The inclusions are easily to be generated because of the nonuniform distribution of supersaturation of crystal surface in KDP crystal growth process, and the inclusions can reduce the growth quality of crystal. So in order to increase the growth rate of crystal and improve the uniformity of surface supersaturation, the numerical simulation of hydrodynamics and mass transfer in the growth of KDP crystal by using solution circulating method have been performed in this paper. The KDP crystal is in eccentric motion in the calculation model, and the effects of inlet velocities, positions of inlet pipe, and incident angles on the crystal growth are discussed. The surface supersaturation and standard deviation of supersaturation are obtained as functions of different inlet velocities, positions of inlet pipe, and incident angles. The value of surface supersaturation is higher and the standard deviation of surface supersaturation is lower when the inlet pipe and crystal are at the same height. Besides, the uniformity of crystal is improved obviously when the axis of inlet pipe is tangent to the rotation track of R-Py tip.