单喷嘴横流气雾两相流掺混实验研究

采用PIV设备测量了方腔通道内气体液雾两相交叉横向流的掺混,液滴通过旋流雾化喷嘴产生,获得了沿横流方向不同掺混横截面的液滴分布图和液滴运动流线图.比较了三种喷嘴布置角度(60°,90°,120°)在不同气流速度下的掺混效果.结果表明:在横流作用和壁面约束的影响下,流场中出现不同尺度的漩涡,大涡的卷吸与离心作用导致液滴分布不均匀,影响了雾滴与气相的掺混.随着掺混的发展,大涡的强度和尺寸均减小,对雾滴影响减弱,掺混变好;三种喷嘴布置角度下,60°掺混最好,90°次之,120°最差.     

高温横流燃气喷雾掺混的数值研究

高温高压条件下受限空间内旋流喷雾与横向气流的掺混规律尚不清楚,本文对圆形通道内高温燃气与旋流喷雾掺混蒸发过程进行了三维数值模拟,探究流场特征与掺混规律,研究增强流场掺混效果的方法。研究结果表明,四喷嘴周向均匀布置可以使雾化液滴群较均匀的充满掺混空间。相邻喷嘴中间区域液滴群浓度较高,气相温降较大。靠近壁面区域出现多组小尺度的旋涡对结构,小尺度涡结构的发展是促进掺混蒸发过程的主要方式。喷嘴雾化锥角、轴向倾角、切向倾角影响雾化液滴滞留时间及喷雾轴向贯穿深度,进而对掺混效果有较大影响,选择适中的喷嘴雾化角及入射角有利于流场掺混均匀。     

气体-颗粒掺混的数值模拟研究

通过数值模拟方法研究了圆管内湍流气体和压力旋流雾化喷嘴产生的液滴群的掺混规律.定义了掺混度、不均匀浓度因子和无量纲颗粒浓度定量评价掺混水平,根据这些特征参数,获得了掺混度曲线和截面等浓度线.分析了不同水气比、喷嘴雾化角度和颗粒直径情况下颗粒群对横向气流的影响以及气相对颗粒群掺混过程的作用.结果表明:颗粒群的加入使气相产生了尺度不同的涡,促进了气相湍流发展;近喷雾区,大尺度的涡造成了颗粒局部浓度较高,掺混度较低,但是经过较短的距离就能充分掺混,此时掺混度值较高,同时初始的喷雾形态和壁面处的较大速度梯度使得颗粒存在趋壁现象;水气比1:1、中等雾化角度90°和较大的颗粒更有利于掺混.     

组合电极荷电雾化的实验研究

为合理设计微小尺度液体燃料荷电喷雾燃烧器,开展了不同运行参数下喷雾特性的PDA(相位多普勒粒子分析仪)实验研究.实验段采用由喷嘴电极-环形电极-收集网格形成的组合电极结构,以乙醇为燃料,控制不同的喷嘴电压、环形电极电压、流量、收集网格位置等参数,测试了不同条件下的喷雾粒径、轴向速度、轴向脉动速度.在本文实验工况下发现:喷嘴电极电压的增加,粒径和速度减小.环形电极可显著减小喷雾粒径和速度。在环形电极感应荷电的作用下,粒径随着环形电极电压增加而增大。流量越小,粒径、速度越小,喷雾更稳定.增大收集网格到喷嘴出口距离,由于液滴蒸发的作用会使液滴粒径变小,在液滴粒径变小和黏滞力的双重作用下液滴轴向速度减小。     

高焓横向射流尾迹区掺混燃烧的数值特性

尾迹区作为横向射流流场的重要结构受到广泛关注,其掺混和燃烧特性对近壁面区域的流场特性有重要影响.文章在对仿真充分验证的基础上,采用Reynolds平均模拟方法对Ma=8飞行条件下高焓横向射流尾迹区中的掺混和燃烧特性进行了数值研究.探究了冷热流场尾迹区中的氢气掺混特性,冷态流场尾迹区中的激波结构对氢气分布产生一定影响,热态流场尾迹区中存在多种氢气掺混路径.V形回流区中的高浓度氢气对燃烧产生了一定的阻碍作用.定量测量了尾迹区中的火焰结构,尾迹区火焰的顶点位置随高度增加向下游线性移动,受射流主流影响,尾迹区火焰的展向宽度在距离壁面一定高度后开始增大.对冷热流场中的主要参数进行了对比,燃烧消耗了氢气使温度升高,但是尾迹区中的流动速度没有明显增加,燃烧放出的热量没有完全转化为流体的动能.      

脱硫废水液滴与飞灰颗粒碰撞特性数值研究

在利用烟道余热喷雾蒸发脱硫废水时,烟道中的飞灰会与喷雾液滴发生碰撞,进而影响废水处理效率.本文利用大涡模拟(LES)和离散相模型(DPM),模拟脱硫废水喷入烟道的雾化过程及粒径分布,重点考察了烟道飞灰与喷雾液滴碰撞时烟道流场分布及液滴空间分布,分析了Stokes数和喷雾角对流场和空间分布的影响规律.研究结果表明,采用空气雾化喷嘴雾化333.33 L·h~(-1)的脱硫废水,喷雾液滴的粒径分布为20～250μm;无飞灰进入烟道时,Stokes小于1时喷雾液滴速度衰减极快,Stokes大于1时喷雾液滴速度衰减最慢,且喷雾角较大时衰减更快;含飞灰进入烟道时,由于动量交换,喷雾液滴速度衰减更快,且碰撞主要发生于速度衰减到35 m·s~(-1)后的位置.     

振荡液滴内部流态

在外界来流作用下,液滴在固体表面上呈现周期性振荡特性.利用数值方法模拟平板上二维液滴在气流剪切作用下的界面及内部流动特性,重构二维液滴内部流场,着重认识液滴内部速度分布和压力分布.     

中心体喷嘴自由水射流的波动与能量分布特性

在15 MPa射流压力条件下,对一中心体喷嘴进行自由水射流实验.用高速数码摄像技术捕捉喷嘴出口附近的瞬态流束界面波动特征;用相位多普勒粒子分析技术(PDPA)测量充分发展的射流场中的平均速度、均方根速度及液滴粒径分布.研究表明,中心体喷嘴射流流束的界面波动明显,远离喷嘴出口,流束界面波动频率降低,但波动幅值增大;射流轴...     

直接甲醇燃料电池阴极水淹过程实验研究

对自制可视化直接甲醇燃料电池单体阴极流场内液滴生长特性、氧气流量和氧气进气温度对流场水淹及电池性能的影响进行了实验研究.结果表明:平行流场中首个液滴大多在流场右上区域冒出;流场中新液滴的出现具有瞬间涌出特性,并优先在流场板和扩散层交界的夹角处及扩散层表面碳纤维束交叉处产生;液滴生长过程具有非连续性,与流道边壁相接触的液滴和液柱的生长速度均大于未接触流道边壁的液滴生长速度,而且液柱有逆气流方向反向生长现象.氧气流量及氧气进气温度的升高,均导致阴极流道内液态水和流场中大液滴数量及形成液柱的长度减少,促使电池性能提高.     

双液滴撞击平面液膜的流动与传热特性

采用耦合的水平集-体积分数法(CLSVOF)对双液滴连续撞击恒定壁温壁面上的热液膜的流动和换热特性进行了数值模拟及分析,得到了双液滴撞击热液膜后形态演变的过程.分析了液滴垂直间距、撞击速度、液膜厚度以及液滴直径对双液滴撞击液膜后的流动与传热特性的影响,结果显示,壁面平均热流密度随液滴撞击速度的增大而增大,液滴垂直间距、液膜厚度和液滴直径对平均热流密度的影响较小,但会对热流密度在撞击区域和交界区的分布产生重要影响.     

基于MRT-LB伪势模型的液滴撞击液膜数值研究

运用改进的格子玻尔兹曼（LB）伪势多松弛多相模型，研究单/双液滴撞击液膜的流动特性.考察单液滴在不同气液相密度比时撞击液膜的发展.随着密度比的减小，冠状水花顶端开始向内弯曲，且底部半径显著减小.在大密度比情况下研究双液滴撞击液膜.结果表明：双液滴撞击液膜有中心射流的形成；液滴水平间距的增大，延缓中心射流的出现，并降低初始中心射流的高度；随Re数的增加，中心射流的高度明显增大.     

多喷嘴喷雾场数值模拟分析

本文建立了多喷嘴喷雾场的三维物理数学模型,运用欧拉-拉格朗日法对多喷嘴下的喷雾场进行了详细数值模拟,得到了双喷嘴及三喷嘴情况下喷射入口压力和流量变化对喷雾场内雾滴索太尔直径和雾滴速度的影响规律;并通过与单喷嘴情况进行对比,给出了喷嘴数目对喷雾场内雾滴速度及粒径大小分布的影响。     

Correlations to predict droplet size in ultrasonic atomisation.

In conventional two fluid nozzles, the high velocity air imparts its energy to the liquid and disrupts the liquid sheet into droplets. If the energy for liquid sheet fragmentation can be supplied by the use of ultrasonic energy, finer droplets with high sphericity and uniform size distribution can be achieved. The other advantage of ultrasound induced atomisation process is the lower momentum associated with ejected droplets compared to the momentum carried by the droplets formed using conventional nozzles. This has advantage in coating and granulation processes. An ultrasonic probe sonicator was designed with a facility for liquid feed arrangement and was used to atomise the liquid into droplets. An ingenious method of droplet measurement was attempted by capturing the droplets on a filter paper (size variation with regard to wicking was uniform in all cases) and these are subjected to image analysis to obtain the droplet sizes. This procedure was evaluated by high-speed photography of droplets ejected at one particular experimental condition and these were image analysed. The correlations proposed in the literature to predict droplet sizes using ultrasound do not take into account all the relevant parameters. In this work, a truly universal correlation is proposed which accounts for the effects of physico-chemical properties of the liquid (flow rate, viscosity, density and surface tension), and ultrasonic properties like amplitude, frequency and the area of vibrating surface. The significant contribution of this work is to define dimensionless numbers incorporating ultrasonic parameters, taking cue from the conventional numbers that define the significance of different forces involved in droplet formation. The universal correlations proposed are robust and can be used for designing ultrasonic atomisers for different applications. Among the correlations proposed here, those ones that are based on the dimensionless numbers and Davies approach predict droplet sizes within acceptable limits of deviation. Also, an empirical correlation from experimental data has been proposed in this work.     

Experimental investigation of spray characteristics of a liquid jet in a turbulent subsonic gaseous crossflow

Two perforated plates with different solidity ratios, S=50% and 67%, were used to investigate the effect of the velocity fluctuations of a subsonic gaseous crossflow on the spray characteristics of a liquid jet including droplet size and velocity distributions. The experiments were conducted over a range of jet-to-crossflow momentum flux ratio of q=16.5-172, and two gas Weber numbers of ?We_g=2.7 and 5.9, corresponding to the enhanced capillary breakup and bag breakup regimes, respectively. The experimental results of this study revealed that the distribution of droplets size associated with a turbulent and a uniform crossflow for each specific breakup regime were approximately identical. The bimodal and single peak distributions of droplets size, respectively, associated with enhanced capillary and bag breakup regimes were generally consistent with the literature reports. However, the transition of the liquid primary breakup regime from enhanced capillary to bag breakup mode was delayed in a turbulent crossflow compared to its uniform counterpart. The general behavior of droplets size-velocity profiles were also consistent with the literature reports. Nonetheless, complex variations in the distribution of droplets velocity when changing the crossflow turbulence intensity were observed and linked with the presence of instabilities on the liquid jet's surface. Finally, the present experiments allowed shedding more light on the reason why the breakup mechanisms of a liquid jet in a conventional uniform crossflow should not be generalized to predict the distinct breakup process of a liquid jet in a turbulent crossflow.     

Numerical simulation of two droplets impacting upon a dynamic liquid film

The impact of droplets on the liquid film is widely involved in industrial and agricultural fields. In recent years, plenty of works are limited to dry walls or stationary liquid films, and the research of multi-droplet impact dynamic films is not sufficient. Based on this, this paper employs a coupled level set and volume of fluid (CLSVOF) method to numerically simulate two-droplet impingement on a dynamic liquid film. In our work, the dynamic film thickness, horizontal central distance between the droplets, droplets' initial impact speed, and simultaneously the flow velocity of the moving film are analyzed. The evolution phenomenon and mechanism caused by the collision are analyzed in detail. We find that within a certain period of time, the droplet spacing does not affect the peripheral crown height; when the droplet spacing decreases or the initial impact velocity increases, the height of the peripheral crown increases at the beginning, and then, because the crown splashed under Rayleigh-Plateau instability, this results in the reduction of the crown height. At the same time, it is found that when the initial impact velocity increases, the angle between the upstream peripheral jet and the dynamic film becomes larger. The more obvious the horizontal movement characteristics, the more restrained the crown height; the spread length increases with the increase of the dynamic film speed, droplet spacing and the initial impact velocity. When the liquid film is thicker, more fluid enters the crown, due to the crown being unstable, the surface tension is not enough to overcome the weight of the rim at the end of the crown, resulting in droplets falling off.     

Droplets sliding on fibres

We present the results of a combined experimental and theoretical investigation of oil droplets sliding on fibres. First, both the axisymmetric shape and the motion of a droplet on a vertical fibre are described. The motion is shown to result from a balance between the droplet weight and the viscous stresses. On a long-term range, the droplet loses some mass through coating the fibre, which decreases its velocity. In a second time, we rationalize the behaviour of a droplet that encounters a junction between vertical and horizontal fibres. Depending on its size, the droplet may cross the junction or remain blocked. The transition is well described by an ordinary differential equation equivalent to a damped harmonic oscillator truncated to the neighbourhood of the horizontal fibre. This simple system is the basic element for more complex fiber networks that would be useful in microfluidic applications involving droplets.     

Monitoring the presence of water and water–sand droplets in a horizontal pipe with Acoustic Emission technology

Monitoring of multiphase flow is a process that has been established over several decades. This paper demonstrates the use of Acoustic Emission (AE) technology to detect and monitor moving water and water–sand droplets in a horizontal pipe. The experimental investigation considered two types of droplets, water and water–sand with average droplet volumes ranging from 1 ml to 5 ml. The experimental findings show good correlation between AE energy, droplet volume and the superficial gas velocity (V_SG).     

A Predictive Model for the Initial Droplet Size and Velocity Distributions in Sprays and Comparison with Experiments

The distribution of sizes and velocities of droplets initially formed in sprays is an important piece of information needed in the spray modelling, because it defines the initial condition of the spray droplets in the predictive calculations of the downstream two‐phase flow fields. A predictive model for the initial droplet size and velocity distributions in sprays is formulated in this study. The present model incorporates both the deterministic and the stochastic aspect of spray formation process. The deterministic aspect takes into account of the unstable wave motion before the liquid bulk breakup through the linear and nonlinear instability analysis, which provides information for the liquid bulk breakup length, the mass‐mean diameter and a prior distribution for the droplet sizes corresponding to the unstable wave growth of various wavelengths. The stochastic aspect deals with the final stage of droplet formation after the liquid bulk breakup by statistical means through the maximum entropy principle based on Bayesian entropy. The two sub‐models are coupled together by the various source terms signifying the liquid‐gas interaction, the mass mean diameter and the prior distribution based on the instability analysis. The initial droplet size and velocity distributions are measured experimentally by phase‐Doppler interferometry for sprays generated by a planar research nozzle and a practical gas turbine airblast nozzle. For the two nozzles, the liquid bulk sheet is formed before its breakup in a coflowing air stream. It is found that the model predictions are in satisfactory agreement with the experimental data for all the cases measured. Hence the present model may be applied to a variety of practical sprays to specify the initial conditions for the spray droplets formed in practical spray systems.