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.     

Similarity between the primary and secondary air-assisted liquid jet breakup mechanisms

We report an ultrafast synchrotron x-ray phase-contrast imaging study of the primary breakup mechanism of a coaxial air-assisted water jet. There exist great similarities between the primary (jet) and the secondary (drop) breakup, and in the primary breakup on different length scales. A transition from a ligament- to a membrane-mediated breakup is identified around an effective Weber number We' approximately 13. This observation reveals the critical role an effective Weber number plays in determining the atomization process and strongly supports the cascade breakup model.     

毛细喷孔超高速水射流的脉动及破碎

水切割射流的动力学特性的诸多方面尚未得到认识和理解。本文对毛细喷孔产生的超高压水射流展开可视化研究,分析了常规压力及超高压条件下毛细水射流的液体破碎机制并对超高压毛细射流的脉动现象进行了讨论。常规条件下的毛细射流遵从经典的破碎模式;在超高压条件下,射流完整段呈瑞利模式,完整段以下呈雾化破碎模式,射流集束性呈现周期性变化。结果表明,传统理论不能够表达小孔径时超高速毛细水射流的破碎特性;喷孔内部流动情况如流动分离及空化成为该条件下射流破碎和脉动的重要原因。     

Liquid jet response to internal modulated ultrasonic radiation pressure and stimulated drop production

Experimental evidence shows that a liquid jet in air is an acoustic waveguide having a cutoff frequency inversely proportional to the jet diameter. Ultrasound applied to the jet supply liquid can propagate within the jet when the acoustic frequency is near to or above the cutoff frequency. Modulated radiation pressure is used to stimulate large amplitude deformations and the breakup of the jet into drops. The jet response to the modulated internal ultrasonic radiation pressure was monitored along the jet using (a) an optical extinction method and (b) images captured by a video camera. The jet profile oscillates at the frequency of the radiation pressure modulation and where the response is small, the amplitude was found to increase in proportion to the square of the acoustic pressure amplitude as previously demonstrated for oscillating drops [P.L. Marston and R.E. Apfel, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 67, 27-37 (1980)]. Small amplitude deformations initially grow approximately exponentially with axial distance along the jet. Though aspects of the perturbation growth can be approximated from Rayleigh's analysis of the capillary instability, some detailed features of the observed jet response to modulated ultrasound are unexplained neglecting the effects of gravity.     

Detailed simulation of primary atomization mechanisms in Diesel jet sprays (isolated identification of liquid jet tip effects)

In this study, the atomization characteristics of Diesel jet front tip have been investigated to elucidate the physical mechanisms by detailed numerical simulation. The computations are carried out with the finest grid resolutions ever that can resolve the final droplet generation by surface tension. The numerical methods are based on level-set interface tracking. The methods were validated by test cases and the grid resolution survey shows that the resolutions for the present study are sufficient. The present flow setup excludes nozzle disturbances to investigate how the disturbances from the liquid jet front would lead to atomization where the liquid jet impacts against the quiescent gas. The liquid jet front becomes an umbrella-like shape. From the front umbrella tip edge, ligament breakup first occurs. Ligament breakup is strongly correlated with the gas motion in the vicinity. The gas region behind the front is highly disturbed by atomization. By the gas recirculation motion here, air and some droplets are entrained and mixed. Also, the disturbances are fed back to the front umbrella by this motion and become synchronized with the breakup. Droplet pinch-off is mainly in the short-wave mode, but some ligaments are elongated by local gas stretch to finally have a long-wave mode shape, namely a mode shift occurs. The above findings of liquid jet front umbrella formation, atomization at the umbrella edge, mixing and atomization loop in the recirculation flow region and droplet generation mode give an insight to the modeling of droplet generation in actual sprays.     

Instability of water jet: Aerodynamically induced acoustic and capillary waves

High-speed water jet cutting has important industrial applications. To further improve the cutting performance it is critical to understand the theory behind the onset of instability of the jet. In this paper, instability of a water jet flowing out from a nozzle into ambient air is studied. Capillary forces and compressibility of the liquid caused by gas bubbles are taken into account, since these factors have shown to be important in previous experimental studies. A new dispersion equation, generalizing the analogous Rayleigh equation, is derived. It is shown how instability develops because of aerodynamic forces that appear at the streamlining of an initial irregularity of the equilibrium shape of the cross-section of the jet and how instability increases with increased concentration of gas bubbles. It is also shown how resonance phenomena are responsible for strong instability. On the basis of the theoretical explanations given, conditions for stable operation are indicated.     

Enhanced stability of electrohydrodynamic jets through gas ionization

Theoretical predictions of the nonaxisymmetric instability growth rate of an electrohydrodynamic jet based on the measured total current overestimate experimental values. We show that this apparent discrepancy is the result of gas ionization in the surrounding gas and its effect on the surface charge density of the jet. As a result of gas ionization, a sudden drop in the instability growth rate occurs below a critical electrode separation, yielding highly stable jets that can be used for nano- to microscale printing.     

薄膜自激拍打射流的流动特性实验

在射流喷嘴出口处安装一端固定的柔性薄膜,在流速足够大时,射流和柔性膜相互诱导产生自激拍打作用,针对这一现象,提出了一种新型的自激拍打射流混合技术。在直径D=40 mm的渐缩喷嘴上固定长度L=(0.5～2)D和厚度δ=50μm的氟化乙烯丙烯共聚物(fluorinated ethylene propylene, FEP)薄膜,使用压差计测量了光滑渐缩喷嘴以及薄膜拍打运动所引起的压力损失。通过激光片光源和高速相机进行薄膜运动状态的显示和拍打幅度的测定,探究了拍打幅度受薄膜长度和Re的影响及其变化规律,利用测得的拍打幅度(A)和频率(f)作为Strouhal数(St=fA/U_o,U_o是射流的出口速度)的特征尺寸进行研究。在Re=3×10⁴的条件下,使用热线风速仪测量了在不同薄膜长度下拍打射流轴向速度沿中心线的分布,并对湍流度、概率密度函数等特征进行分析。此外,经过数字迭代滤波后获得射流沿中心线的积分尺度、 Taylor尺度和Kolmogorov尺度等统计量。实验结果显示,拍打射流的湍流度高于自由射流,意味着前者对周围流体具有更强...     

Quantification of liquid mixing enhanced by alternatively pulsed injection in a confined jet configuration

Abstract  

In this paper, mixing between the fluid from a primary planar jet and two surrounding secondary planar jets which are pulsated out-of-phase is studied experimentally. Solenoid values are used to control the flow injection into the mixing channel with pulse-width modulation. The experiments are conducted using water at a range of pulsation frequency, two duty cycles (25 and 50%) and a mean Reynolds number between 100 and 250. The flow rate ratio between the primary and secondary flow is kept as unity. Both particle-image velocimetry and planar laser-induced fluorescence techniques are used to visualise the flow patterns and to quantify the mixing degree in the mixing channel. This mixing enhancement method is shown to be effective with a mixing degree as high as 0.9 achieved at a mean Reynolds number of about 166. A combination of different mixing mechanisms is found at play, including sequential segmentation, shearing and stretching, vortex entrainment and breakup. At a given Reynolds number, an optimal frequency exists which scales approximately with a Strouhal number (St = fh/U) of unity. Furthermore, at a given mean Reynolds number a lower duty cycle is found to produce a better mixing due to a resultant higher instantaneous Reynolds number in the jet flow.     

空心旋转液体射流初始阶段运动规律的研究

应用质量守恒定律和动量守恒定律,建立了描述空心旋转液体射流初始阶段运动的非线 性常微分方程组;该方程组可以用数值方法方便地求解。理论计算结果与实验拍摄到的射流照片吻 合很好。本结果表示射流受挑动失稳破碎成液滴前的最基本运动状态,是进一步从理论上研究空心 旋转射流破碎雾化机理的基础。     

Effects of fuel viscosity on the primary breakup dynamics of a high-speed liquid jet with comparison to X-ray radiography

One of the major concerns in combustion engines is the sensitivity of engine performance to fuel properties. Recent works have shown that even slight differences in fuel properties can cause significant changes in performance and emission of an engine. In order to design the combustion engines with multi-fuel flexibilities, the precise assessment of fuel sensitivity on liquid jet atomization process is a prerequisite since the resulting fuel/air mixture is critical to the subsequent combustion process. The present study is focusing on the effect of physical fuel properties, mostly viscosity difference, on the breakup process of the liquid jet injected into still air. Two different jet fuels, CAT-A2 and CAT-C3, are considered here as surrogates for a fossil-based fuel and a bio-derived high-viscosity alternative fuel. The simulations are performed using the volume-of-fluid (VoF) interface tracking method coupled to Lagrangian particle method in order to capture the breakup instabilities of jets and the resulting droplets. The investigations take the actual geometry of the injector into account to resolve the unsteady flow phenomena inside the nozzle that impact the turbulence transition and atomization. The simulation results are compared to the experimental measurement using X-ray radiography. Both simulation and X-ray measurements consistently describe the effects of different fuels on the fundamental properties of atomization including the breakup length, transverse liquid volume fraction and the droplet sauter-mean-diameter. The application of a Detailed Numerical Simulation approach complemented by unique X-ray diagnostics is novel and providing new understanding and research directions in engine spray dynamics.     

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.     

Gas jets as ultrasonic waveguides

The study of the propagation of ultrasound within a gas jet is extended to obtain waveguide effects, where the jet collimates the ultrasonic beam from a transducer within the flow. Two methods have been investigated to achieve this--cooling the gas within the air jet, and using a different gas whose acoustic velocity is lower than air. Cooling an air jet to a temperature less than that of the surrounding air produced a noticeable waveguide effect. In addition, studies have been carried out using other selected gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2) with a lower acoustic velocity than air, and helium (He) with a higher value. The former gas enhanced confinement of the ultrasonic beam, whereas the latter caused divergence. An ideal solution was found to be a CO2/air mixture, which produced a well-collimated sound field along the axis, while limiting the excess attenuation of pure CO2 gas jets. The effectiveness of the waveguide using mixed gas jets in producing images in air-coupled testing of solids is demonstrated.     

Air ingestion by a buckled viscous jet of silicone oil impacting the free surface of the same liquid

As frequently observed in common life, a jet of a viscous liquid impacting on a horizontal surface does not remain straight but instead buckles and folds periodically. We report experiments with planar (ribbonlike) jets of silicone oil impacting the free surface of the same liquid and describe the way in which jet folds incorporate air. It is shown that air ingestion proceeds through different modes, each of them acting as a source of monodisperse bubbles and featuring a threshold in jet height. These sources result from the breakup of remarkable cuspidal structures, produced by the recession of air domains within liquid folds.     

激波作用不同椭圆氦气柱过程中流动混合研究

在激波与气柱相互作用问题中,压力与密度间断不平行产生的斜压涡量会引起流动的不稳定性,从而促进物质间的混合.本文基于双通量模型,结合五阶加权基本无振荡(WENO)格式,求解多组分二维Navier-Stokes方程,分析激波作用面积相同结构不同的椭圆气柱所致的流动和混合.数值结果清晰地显示了激波诱导Richtmyer-Meshkov不稳定性引起的气柱界面变形和波系演化.同时定量地从界面运动、界面结构参数变化(长度和高度)、气柱体积压缩率、环量及混合率等角度分析激波诱导的流动混合机制,研究椭圆几何构型对氦气混合过程的影响.结果表明,界面及相关参数的演化与气柱初始形状密切相关.当激波沿椭圆长轴作用于气柱时,气柱前端出现空气射流结构,且射流不断增长并渗透到下游界面,致使气柱分离成两个独立涡团,离心率越大,射流发展越快;同时激波作用气柱后在界面处产生不规则反射现象.圆形气柱界面演化与这种作用情形类似.当激波沿椭圆短轴作用于气柱时,界面上游出现类平面结构,随后平面上下缘处产生涡旋,主导流动发展,激波在界面作用产生规则反射,离心率越大,这些现象越明显.界面高度、长度、体积压缩率也因此有所差异.对界面演化、环量和混合率的综合分析表明,激波沿长轴作用于气柱且离心率较大时,流动发展较快,不稳定性导致的流动越复杂,越有利于氦气与环境介质的混合.     

Bubbling in unbounded coflowing liquids

An investigation of the stability of low density and viscosity fluid jets and spouts in unbounded coflowing liquids is presented. A full parametrical analysis from low to high Weber and Reynolds numbers shows that the presence of any fluid of finite density and viscosity inside the hollow jet elicits a transition from an absolute to a convective instability at a finite value of the Weber number, for any value of the Reynolds number. Below that critical value of the Weber number, the absolute character of the instability leads to local breakup, and consequently to local bubbling. Experimental data support our model.     

聚能射流高速光学测试技术

本文介绍了用正文同步扫描测量技术对聚能射流的动态参数进行测试,拍摄到非常清晰的射流头部在空气中飞行所产生的空气冲击波。运用计算机图象处理技术对拍摄的底片进行处理以后,获得了较为理想的射流图象。对底片进行测量,获得了射流在X平面内和Y平面内的离轴偏差,以及射流在X、Y平面内的飞行姿态,射流的累积长度作为速度的函数,射流的速度分布,射流的质量分布和动能分布,射流的断裂时间和断裂位置。     

Numerical simulation of water jet breakup under the influence of flow velocity oscillations

Numerical investigations of forced water jet breakup under the influence of harmonic oscillations of the inlet velocity are carried out. An adequate model is used. Areas of jet breakup regimes under the influence of sinusoidal oscillations are determined.     

Magnetic field influence on coflow laminar diffusion flames

The behavior of a laminar methane air flame with a central methane jet and a surrounding air coflow is analyzed in a large range of fuel and air flow rates. Different regimes of flame stability are described from an anchored flame to a stable lifted flame which is destabilized before extinction. Influence of an upward increasing magnetic field generated by an electromagnet is then studied. Experimental measurements at different values of methane and air flow rates show that the flame lift-off height is decreased by the magnetic gradient. These effects are attributed to the magnetic force which develops on air via its action on the paramagnetic oxygen molecules. The magnetic force interacts with the air jet structures upstream of the flame and then influences the flame stability.     

气泡在自由液面破碎后的射流断裂现象研究

在势流假设下, 考虑表面张力以及黏性修正, 建立自由液面在气泡破碎后全非线性运动的数值模型, 给出射流断裂和水滴撕裂的数值处理方法. 同时进行上浮气泡在自由液面破裂的实验研究, 数值解与实验值符合良好.为了研究自由液面在气泡破碎后的运动学机理和规律, 运用开发的程序研究了不同尺寸气泡破碎后的动态特性, 包括从气泡底部顶起的射流、射流断裂以及水滴分裂等复杂的物理现象, 总结了从射流上撕裂出的第一个水滴尺寸、撕裂时间以及最大射流速度的变化规律. 最后讨论了雷诺数与韦伯数对气泡破碎后自由液面运动的影响. 关键词： 气泡 自由液面 破碎 断裂