The objective of this study was to determine the mixing characteristics of two-phase, confined, coaxial jets. Gas composition, gas velocity, and particle mass flux radial profiles were obtained at different axial stations using 20% by weight of 6 or 30 pm spherical aluminum particles in the primary stream. Additional tests were conducted without particles. Radial profiles for gas composition, velocity, and particle flux were correlated using the principle of similarity. In the gas phase, mass mixed more rapidly than momentum, and the 6 pm particles mixed less rapidly than mass or momentum. Systems with low primary density and low secondary velocity mixed most rapidly. An implicit numerical model was developed to predict the rate of mixing of the gadparticle mixture. The model included coupled dynamic and thermal nonequilibrium effects between the gas and solid phases. Many chemical processes utilize separate streams which mix and often react in a vessel. A common method of contacting these streams is to allow them to exhaust from two coaxial jets into a mixing zone. The jets may be either free (that is, exhausting into an unconfined environment) or confined by the vessel walls.The considerable effort expended in characterizing the mixing behavior of gaseous free and confined jets has been reviewed by Stowell and Smoot (1973). The mixing process is substantially more complicated, however, when either of the jet stream? contains a significant fraction of a particulate phase. Only limited data exist which characterize the mixing of the particulate phase or the effect of the particulate phase on the mixing characteristics of the g.ireous phases.The purpose of this research effort was to determine the mixing characteristics of the gaseous and particulate phases of a central primary jet as it mixes with a clean, gaseous secondary jet. The radial profiles of gas composition, gas velocity, and particle mass flux were measured across the mixing zone at various axial positions downstream from the jet exit. Effects of variation in velocity and density of the streams were also examined.The facility utilized high pressure air from a reservoir to supply both the primary and secondary jets. In addition, helium and an aluminum powder were introduced into the electrically heated primary jet. Fine-mesh screens were installed near the exit of both the primary and secondary jets to flatten the exit velocity profiles. Existing instrumentation techniques were adapted to measure the helium composition, gas velocity, and particle mass flux. Mixing experiments were conducted at various secondary to primary mass flow ratios (2.6 to 42), secondary to primary density ratios (1 to 4), and secondary to primary velocity ratio; (0.1 to 0.45). Tests were conducted without particles, and with 6 and 30 pm spherical aluminum particles in the primary stream.A computer model was developed using implicit numerical techniques to predict the behavior of a twophase primary jet mixing with a secondary confined coaxial jet. The model considers gas composit...