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.     

Effect of the gas density on the force action of a turbulent jet

We have reported on the results of experimental and theoretical studies of the effect of the gas density on the force action of a gas jet for the flow parameters monitored by the pressure upstream of the outlet aperture. No appreciable effect of density has been revealed. At attempt has been made to describe the dependence of the force of action of the jet on the pressure upstream of the outlet aperture using isentropic expressions. It has been found that the only parameter of the gas that can affect the force action of the jet is the adiabatic exponent.     

激光干涉技术在超声速气体喷嘴特性研究中的应用

在激光与物质相互作用的实验中,气体靶通常由超声速喷嘴在高背压下向真空中高速喷射气体产生。激光与气体靶相互作用时确定打靶条件对整个实验有着十分重要的意义。为了得到不同实验条件下气体靶密度的分布特性，采用马赫-曾德尔干涉法测量了气体靶密度分布，获取了干涉图样。使用基于傅里叶变换的条纹处理方法测得的干涉图样，得到不同实验条件下气体分子密度的全空间分布。实验表明：用M-Z干涉仪测量超声速气体喷嘴产生的气体靶密度分布十分有效。基于傅里叶变换的条纹处理方法具有精度高、实时性好的优点，为打靶时气体靶密度的实时测量提供了可能。     

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.     

Dynamic characteristics of gas jets from subsonic and supersonic nozzles for high pressure gas laser cutting

During laser cutting of stainless steels, titanium and aluminum alloys, a coaxial and high pressure inert gas jet is used to improve the cut edge quality. The process normally consumes a large amount of inert gas and has a poor tolerance to variation in process parameters. This is solely because the gas nozzles are mostly of the conical and convergent type in which the gas jets are subsonic. Based on two dimensional steady state gas dynamic theory, computer simulation and shadowgraphic techniques, the gas jet patterns from conical nozzles and the newly designed supersonic nozzles are analyzed. The distribution of pressure, momentum, gas density and existence of shock waves are predicted and mapped. Based on these characteristics, the effect of the gas jets upon the cut quality is explained. It is concluded that a supersonic gas jet offers the best flow characteristics for high pressure laser cutting.     

Ultraintense laser-produced fast-electron propagation in gas jets

We study the propagation of fast electrons in a gas at different densities. A large relativistic electron current is produced by focusing a short-pulse ultrahigh-intensity laser on a metallic target. It then propagates in a gas jet placed behind the foil. Shadowgraphy in the gas shows an electron cloud moving at sub-relativistic average velocities. The experiment shows (i) the essential role of the density of background material for allowing propagation of fast electrons, (ii) the importance of the ionization phase which produces free electrons available for the return current, and (iii) the effect of electrostatic fields on fast-electron propagation.     

气体靶密度的数值计算与实验研究

 采用了1维简单模型来模拟气体靶的空间密度分布情况,并且该计算值得到了实验的验证。使用M-Z干涉仪诊断锥型喷嘴喷射的气体靶密度分布,得到了不同压力和不同延时下的干涉图样。自行编写了实验数据处理程序,得到了不同情况下气体密度的空间分布。在相互作用实验中,由气体分子密度随压力的变化,可以确定合适的压力,以获得预期的气体靶密度;由气体分子密度随时间的变化,可以确定激光与气体的作用时刻。     

Optimization of an off-axis nozzle for assist gas injection in laser fusion cutting

The aerodynamic features of the gas flow during laser fusion cutting are an essential factor influencing the cut performance. For this reason it has been a subject of some studies to explain the interactions of the gas jet with the workpiece and to design different gas injection systems with the aim of preventing the drawbacks of the conventional cutting heads.An off-axis cutting head with a de Laval nozzle to inject a supersonic gas jet has been previously demonstrated to be an effective design to achieve a complete removal of the molten material from the cutting front and to avoid the formation of the recast layer. In the present work, the fundamentals and procedures to adjust the main factors determining the efficiency of this gas injection system are described. Specifically, the gas flow inside the cut kerf is analysed by means of flow visualization using the Schlieren technique.     

大气压氦气多路低温等离子体射流

为了研究大气压低温等离子体多路射流阵列的放电特性,设计一个实现7路低温等离子体射流的放电装置,采用单电极放电结构,在开放的大气环境下通入氦气。采用高压窄脉冲重复频率电源激励驱动该放电装置,电源脉冲宽度约230 ns,脉冲上升沿约为120 ns。在重复频率为500 Hz的条件下,通过高速摄影初步发现放电电流脉宽约为110 ns,且无反向放电。试验结果表明:平均射流长度随电压幅值增加而增加,在一定电压幅值时射流长度有达到饱和的趋势,这是由于射流通道尾部有空气进入,电压幅值已不再是主要原因;只有在合适的气体流量值时,才能够获得较长的平均射流长度,这是由于气体流量过大或过小时射流均不足以维持形成的放电通道;此外,中心电极放电射流长度受气体流量影响较大,气体流量在一定值时可以观察到中心电极有较长的射流,射流放电强度较弱,气体流量过大或过小时中心电极几乎无放电,这是由于四周电极更易形成放电射流,削弱了中心电极放电。 ,     

Coherence-enhanced imaging of a degenerate Bose-Einstein gas

We present coherence-enhanced imaging, an in situ technique that uses Raman superradiance to probe the spatial coherence of an ultracold gas. Applying this technique, we identify the coherent portion of an inhomogeneous degenerate (87)Rb gas and obtain a spatially resolved measurement of the first-order spatial correlation function. We find that the decay of spin gratings is enhanced in high density regions of a Bose-Einstein condensate, and ascribe the enhancement to collective atom-atom scattering. Further, we directly observe spatial inhomogeneities that arise generally in the course of extended-sample superradiance.     

高背压超声气体团簇喷流中团簇平均尺寸沿喷流方向演化研究

本文通过对高背压(50 bar, 1 bar = 1.0×10⁵ Pa)氩气经长锥型喷嘴(长度L=30 mm)向真空绝热膨胀所形成的超声气体团簇喷流的数值模拟, 分析比较了由喷嘴喉口起沿喷流方向在喷流中心轴线上团簇平均尺寸的演化情况. 结果表明: 沿喷流方向团簇平均尺寸显示先增长后趋于饱和的变化趋势, 具有较大尺寸团簇的区域出现在距离喷嘴喉口大约20 mm. 据此本文再结合关于喷流中原子密度沿喷流方向变化的模拟结果开展了锥形喷嘴长度的优化研究. 针对由常见构型的锥形喷嘴(喉径～ 0.5 mm, 半张角～ 8.5°)在高背压下形成的团簇喷流, 20 mm左右的长度为锥形喷嘴的适宜长度.     

Transient stimulated Raman scattering in gas mixtures

We studied, for the first time to our knowledge, transient stimulated Raman scattering in H(2)- D(2) and H(2)- CH(4) gas mixtures excited with 200-fs and 2-ps, 390-nm pulses. Depending on the composition and partial pressure, of those gases, we observed ~40 output lines simultaneously. Under optimum conditions a conversion efficiency of as much as 8% in the combination Raman line at 556 nm was obtained in the H(2)- CH(4) gas mixtures. The difference between picosecond and femtosecond pumping is due to self-phase modulation and to generation of a spectral continuum in the latter. Our calculation of the ratio of the partial pressures is in a good agreement with the experimental results. A new method for measuring the unknown Raman scattering cross section of gas molecules is suggested.     

Physics (and technique) of gas jet experiments

Recently gas jet targets have been used for the study of small momentum transfer p-p and p-d elastic and inelastic scattering. In these experiments, which were performed at Serpukhov in the USSR and at the Fermilab in the USA, the gas jet is introduced in the main ring of the accelerator. We review the techniques associated with these measurements and summarize the published results which cover 4-momentum transfers 0.001< |t|< 0.12 (GeV/c)^?2 and incident energies 8<E< 400 GeV. Elastic scattering data have yielded precise values for the slope of the nuclear scattering amplitude and for the ratio of the real to imaginary part as a function of energy. The implications of these data on the understanding of high energy hadronic interactions are discussed in some detail. We also present and discuss information on the diffractive dissociation of the proton to low mass states, obtained from inelastic scattering using the gas jet target.     

Enhancement of Kr2 excimer generation in a pulsedrare-gas jet discharge with H2 gas contact cooling

A novel excitation scheme for Kr₂ rare-gas excimer formation is developed. A pulse discharge excited Kr jet is dynamically mixed with a H₂ neutral gas flow located downstream in a vacuum chamber. Rapid contact cooling of the high temperature Kr plasma jet by H₂ gas collisions increases the Kr₂ excimer emission at 148 nm by a factor of more than three compared with that observed without the cooling downstream. Significant decreases of both electron temperature and density in the Kr plasma when mixed with H₂ gases downstream are measured with time-resolved spectroscopic methods     

Entrained droplets in underexpanded gas jet in water

Abstract  

A visualization study was performed to investigate the flow of an underexpanded nitrogen gas jet injected into water. The stagnation pressure was varied in the range 0.5–8.0 MPa. The gas jet length and expansion angle were obtained from time-averaged images captured using a high-speed camera. The gas jet length and expansion angle increased approximately linearly with increasing stagnation pressure. The entrainment velocity and the velocity of entrained water droplets in the gas jet were obtained by particle image velocimetry.     

An Experimental Study of In-Situ Phase Fraction in Jet Pump Using Electrical Resistance Tomography Technique

We perform the experiments to investigate in-situ phase fraction in a jet pump using the electrical resistance tomography （ERT） technique. A new jet pump with ERT sensors is designed to measure in-situ phase fraction and flow regime. The study is based on laboratory experiments that are carried out on a 50-mm vertical flow rig for various gas and liquid phase superficial velocities. The different flow patterns of gas liquid in the jet pump and vertical pipe are studied using the ERT technique. The results suggest that the ERT system can be used to successfully produce images of gas-liquid flow patterns with frames rates of 58 fps and the in-situ phase fraction with frame rates of 5 fps can be obtained. The visualizations of a rapid mixing process in the throat of a jet pump obtained in this work provide a reliable basis for theoretical study and optimal design of jet pumps.     

Observations of density fluctuations in an elongated Bose gas: ideal gas and quasicondensate regimes

We report in situ measurements of density fluctuations in a quasi-one-dimensional 87Rb Bose gas at thermal equilibrium in an elongated harmonic trap. We observe an excess of fluctuations compared to the shot-noise level expected for uncorrelated atoms. At low atomic density, the measured excess is in good agreement with the expected "bunching" for an ideal Bose gas. At high density, the measured fluctuations are strongly reduced compared to the ideal gas case. We attribute this reduction to repulsive interatomic interactions. The data are compared with a calculation for an interacting Bose gas in the quasicondensate regime.     

Method for analyzing the gas jet impinging on a liquid surface

The impingement of a gas jet on a liquid surface in the stable-state regime is analyzed theoretically. We consider the case of the perpendicular jet action. It is found that for describing analytically the processes occurring in this case, it is necessary to employ the balance equation for forces at the interface and not the balance equation for pressures at the lowest point of cavity, which was used in most available publications. Recommendations for experimental studies of a gas jet impinging on a liquid surface are formulated. We report on the results of experiments confirming the correctness of our theoretical analysis and making it possible to determine the empirical value of the shape factor. The experiments were carried out with air and epoxy resin. The cavity formed on the liquid surface had radius R₀ = 1–8 mm and depth h = 0.2–12.5 mm.     

Vortex formation in a shock-accelerated gas induced by particle seeding

An instability forms in gas of constant density (air) with an initial nonuniform seeding of small particles or droplets as a planar shock wave passes through the two-phase medium. The seeding nonuniformity is produced by vertical injection of a slow-moving jet of air premixed with glycol droplets or smoke particles into the test section of a shock tube, with the plane of the shock parallel to the axis of the jet. After the shock passage, two counterrotating vortices form in the plane normal to that axis. The physical mechanism of the instability we observe is peculiar to multiphase flow, where the shock acceleration causes the second (embedded) phase to move with respect to the embedding medium. With sufficient seeding concentration, this leads to entrainment of the embedding phase that acquires a relative velocity dependent on the initial seeding, resulting in vortex formation in the flow.     

Diffraction of a superfluid fermi gas by an atomic grating

An atomic grating generated by a pulsed standing-wave laser field is proposed to manipulate the superfluid state in a quantum degenerate gas of fermionic atoms. We show that in the presence of atomic Cooper pairs, the density oscillations of the gas caused by the atomic grating exhibit a much longer coherence time than that in the normal Fermi gas. Our result indicates that the technique of a pulsed atomic grating is a potential candidate to detect the atomic superfluid state in a quantum degenerate Fermi gas.