Splitting of a liquid jet

We demonstrate that a flowing liquid jet can be controllably split into two separate subfilaments through the application of a sufficiently strong tangential stress to the surface of the jet. In contrast, normal stresses can never split a liquid jet. We apply these results to observations of uncontrolled splitting of jets in electric fields. The experimental realization of controllable jet splitting would provide an entirely novel route for producing small polymeric fibers.     

Absolute instability of a liquid jet in a coflowing stream

Cylindrical liquid jets are inherently unstable and eventually break into drops due to the Rayleigh-Plateau instability, characterized by the growth of disturbances that are either convective or absolute in nature. Convective instabilities grow in amplitude as they are swept along by the flow, while absolute instabilities are disturbances that grow at a fixed spatial location. Liquid jets are nearly always convectively unstable. Here we show that two-phase jets can breakup due to an absolute instability that depends on the capillary number of the outer liquid, provided the Weber number of the inner liquid is >O(1). We verify our experimental observations with a linear stability analysis.     

Disintegration of flows of superheated liquid films and jets

This paper represents results on investigating the dynamics of boiling and disintegration of superheated liquid films and jets. The first part deals with experimental study of boiling liquid outflow through short cylindrical and slit channels. Evolution of disintegration of a hot water jet flow is observed both at low and moderate superheating and at high and limit superheating, and also for vaporization mechanisms corresponding to these superheatings. Peculiarities of disintegration of jets through slit and cylindrical channels are noticed. Results on measuring the reactive thrust of the jet through a slit channel under different geometrical conditions behind the channel outlet are represented. The 1/f fluctuations in transient regimes of superheated liquid boiling and in transient regimes of behavior of the jet shape are found. The second part of this article represents results on experimental investigation of nonsteady heat transfer and dynamics of the development of crisis phenomena at boiling of a falling subcooled liquid film in the conditions of stepwise heat release. The experimental data were obtained using synchronized high-speed infrared thermography and video. It is shown that with growth and condensation of vapor bubbles, on the liquid film interface appear large-amplitude waves that lead to considerably increasing local intensity of heat transfer. New data on the boiling incipience temperature in a subcooled liquid film, depending on the heat flux density, are obtained. It is found that the development of boiling crisis is a result of appearance of local dry patches and their subsequent growth by the mechanism of longitudinal thermal conductivity in the heat transfer wall as the equilibrium heat flux density is exceeded.     

Nonlinear development of capillary waves in a viscous liquid jet

The one-dimensional approximate equations describing the dynamics of a Newtonian viscous fluid are used to analyze the nonlinear development of capillary waves in a jet. It is shown that the size of satellite droplets resulting from a nonuniform jet breakup decreases with the Reynolds number at a constant wavenumber. The satellite-droplet formation ceases at a certain value of the Reynolds number, which depends on the wavenumber and initial perturbation amplitude.     

Nucleation efficiency of R134a as a sensitive liquid for superheated drop emulsion detector

Superheated emulsion detector is known to detect neutrons, γ-rays and other charged particles. The present work includes the study of nucleation efficiency of superheated drops of one of the CFC-free liquids, R134a (C₂H₂F₄), to fast neutrons, its response to γ-rays from ²⁴¹Am and ¹³⁷Cs and compare its nucleation efficiency with that of R12. The observation indicates that because of the presence of hydrogen, the nucleation efficiency is less in R134a than in R12 in the present neutron energy range of consideration. R134a is one of the most environment-friendly, commercially available liquid that is suitable for superheated drop detector, specially in neutron dosimetry and one needs to investigate it in detail.     

过热液氦均匀核化速率的确定

预测不同压力下过热液氦的均匀核化速率是十分重要的,它与液氦的极限过热度密切相关。文中通过回顾动力学理论、分子聚集理论、涨落理论等研究液体均匀核化的方法,对过热液氦的均匀核化速率进行了计算,并且对各种方法进行了比较与分析。结果表明,用能量涨落理论来计算过热液氦的均匀核化速率是一种比较合理的方法。     

Electrostatic instability of a heavily charged conducting liquid jet

The effect of electric charge on the jet surface on the capillary instability of the jet and its disintegration into drops is analyzed. A theoretical explanation is given for the electrostatic mechanism of instability development and jet disintegration that is akin to the mechanisms behind the instability of a heavily charged drop (Rayleigh instability) and flat uniformly charged liquid surface (Tonks-Frenkel instability) but differs qualitatively from the conventional capillary mechanism of instability and disintegration.     

Boiling-up of liquid nitrogen jet in water

The hydrodynamic processes occurring at injection of cryogenic liquid into water pool were studied experimentally. Processes accompanying the phase transitions were registered. Data testify the developing pressure burst with an amplitude sufficient for possible formation of gas hydrates when methane is injected as a cryogenic fluid.     

Nonaxisymmetric oscillations of a charged jet of a finite-conductivity viscous liquid

A dispersion relation for nonaxisymmetric oscillations of a charged jet of a viscous incompressible finite-conductivity liquid is derived. In the low-viscosity limit, when the dispersion relation can be reduced to a power algebraic equation, analytical expressions for its roots are found and their dependences on the conductivity of the liquid and carrier mobility are analyzed. Taking into account a finite rate of electric charge transfer introduces an additional damping and somewhat decreases the instability growth rates.     

Chemically racting liquid round jet

An experimental study was conducted on a chemically reacting liquid round free jet. The Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) technique was adopted to evaluate the mixing both the upstream region near the transition point and the downstream region far away from the transition point, and comparisons were conducted between the reacting and the non-reacting jet cases. In the downstream region, the jet profiles for the two cases were found to be quite different. It was concluded that the occurrence of a chemical reaction affects the momentum diffusion of the jet in the downstream region, which results in these differences.     

Peculiarities of superheated liquid discharging under strong and weak nonequilibrium conditions

Results obtained in experimental investigating the characteristics of superheated liquid jet discharging under different nonequilibrium conditions are presented. The cases of liquid discharge from a high-pressure chamber and under gravitational jet formation conditions are considered. Different mechanisms of liquid flash boiling with heating growing up to limit superheating are identified in the case of liquid discharging from the high-pressure chamber. Dependences of the reactive force and the jet shape on the value of liquid overheating in a flow are presented. It is shown that the rapidly decreasing value of the reactive force of the jet is connected with its complete disintegration caused by homogeneous nucleation and by the presence of a normal wall behind the outlet from the channel. The parameters of two-phase jet stability in the conditions of gravitational falling, the flow rates, and the size of droplet dispersion zones depend substantially on the shape of holes and the heat flux density. Pronounced effects of partial or full blocking of the holes as a result of soluble impurities deposition in the regimes of cryogenic liquid evaporation or boiling when vapor cavities are formed in the channel are observed in the conditions of long-term discharging under nonadiabatic conditions. This leads to complete disintegration of the jet and uncontrollable reduction of the flow rate through the hole up to full blocking of the latter.     

Experimental determination of superheated liquid density by the optical fiber method

An experimental approach to determination of the density of liquid superheated with respect to the liquid-vapor equilibrium temperature, including the range of high degrees of superheating, is developed. The approach is based on application of an optical fiber method combined with a pure bubble chamber. Performance of the method for investigation of the refractive index and density for superheated liquids as functions of temperature and pressure is illustrated in experiments with n-hexane as a reference substance for thermophysical measurements. The relative density measurements are performed with a resolution up to 10^?4 at a characteristic time of 1 ms. For absolute measurements, the setup should be calibrated by the known data on the liquid density for the saturation line.     

Investigation of non-Newtonian liquid jet motion

The development of a non-self-similar liquid-liquid jet of a non-Newtonian reactive liquid is considered with in the framework of the boundary layer theory. The analytic expressions are obtained on the basis of the local similarity method for variation of integral parameters of jet flow along its axis, which agree fairly well with the numerical solution of a non-self-similar problem.     

Explosive boiling of liquid nitrogen jet in water

The hydrodynamic processes occurring at injection of cryogenic liquid into water pool were studied experimentally. The processes accompanying phase transitions were registered. Data testify the developing pressure drops of the amplitude within a range sufficient for possible formation of gas hydrates with application of methane as the injected cryogenic liquid.     

液体横向射流在气膜作用下的破碎过程

为了研究液体横向射流在气膜作用下的破碎过程,采用背景光成像技术及VOF TO DPM方法进行了实验研究和仿真研究,模拟介质为水和空气.研究结果表明,液体射流在气膜作用下主要存在两种破碎过程:柱状破碎和表面破碎.Rayleigh-Taylor(R-T)不稳定性产生的表面波是液体射流发生柱状破碎的主要原因,气流穿透表面波的波谷导致射流柱破碎,破碎后的液丝沿流向逐渐发展呈带状分布.Kelvin-Helmholtz(K-H)不稳定性产生的表面波是液体射流发生表面破碎的主要原因,液丝和液滴从射流表面剥离.局部动量比对液体横向射流的破碎过程具有重要影响,当局部动量比较低时,液体射流的破碎由K-H不稳定性主导;随着局部动量比的增大液体射流的破碎逐渐由R-T不稳定性主导.液体射流的破碎长度及穿透深度均随局部动量比的增大而增大.     

Capillary instability of an annular liquid jet surrounding a solid cylinder

Summary The capillary instability of an annular liquid jet surrounding a solid cylinder is presented. A general dispersion equation is derived based on the linear-perturbation technique. The instability as well as stability characteristics of that model are identified analytically and confirmed numerically. The model is unstable only to the axisymmetric perturbation whose wavelengths are longer than the circumference of the liquid jet, while it is stable to all other perturbations. The maximum temporal amplification values prevailing on such a model are fairly lower than those of the full liquid jet. The thicker the solid cylinder, whether it is regular or irregular, the larger is its stabilizing effect.

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Riassunto Si presenta l’instabilità capillare di un getto anulare di liquido che circonda un cilindro solido. Si deduce un’equazione generale di dispersione basata sulla tecnica di perturbazione lineare. Le caratteristiche d’instabilità cosí come quelle di stabilità di quel modello si identificano analiticamente e sono confermate numericamente. Il modello è instabile solo rispetto alla perturbazione assisimmetrica, le cui lunghezze d’onda sono piú lunghe della circonferenza del getto di liquido, mentre è stabile rispetto a tutte le altre perturbazioni. I valori massimi dell’amplificazione temporale che prevalgono in tale modello sono molto piú bassi di quelli del pieno flusso di liquido. Piú spesso è il cilindro solido sia esso regolare o irregolare, maggiore il suo effetto stabilizzante.

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Резюме Анализируется капиллярная неустойчивость кольцевой жидкой струи. окружающей твердьй цилиндр. Выводится общее дисперсионное уравнение. основанное на линейной пертурбационной технике. Неустойчивость, а также характеристики устойчивости в этой модели определяются аналитически и подтверждаются численно. Предложенная модель оказывается неустойчнвой только для осесимметричных возмушений, длины волн которых превышают окружность жидкой струи, и является устойчивой для всех других возмущений. Максимальные значения временного увеличения в такой модели оказываются довольно низкими. Стабилизирующий эффект увеличивается с толщиной твердого цилиндра.

     

On the stability of a nonaxisymmetric charged jet of a viscous conducting liquid

A dispersion equation is derived for axisymmetric and nonaxisymmetric capillary oscillations in a jet of viscous conducting liquid subjected to a constant potential. It is shown that conditions arising when the surface charge density in the jet is high cause the instability of nonaxisymmetric, rather than axisymmetric, modes with the resulting disintegration of the jet into drops of various sizes. This theoretical finding allows one to correctly interpret of experimental data for the spontaneous disintegration of charged jets.     

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.