Experimental study of jet structure and pressurisation upon liquid nitrogen injection into water

The rapid phase change and heat transfer obtained by direct contact heat exchange between a cryogen and water can generate high rates of pressurisation, which is of interest to a number of applications. A visualization study of liquid nitrogen injection into water is conducted in this work, with synchronized pressure and temperature measurement, to obtain insight into this complex phenomenon. High speed imaging reveals a four-stage evolution of liquid nitrogen jet structure upon injection into water, with a thick vapour blanket forming around a liquid nitrogen core and break-up brought on predominantly through impact with the vessel wall. Maximum pressurisation rate occurs in the third stage of injection due to a combination of heat and mass transfer. Pressurisation rates in excess of 350 bar/s are recorded and found to vary proportionally with injection pressure. The scenario of gaseous nitrogen injection is also investigated, and compared with liquid nitrogen injection. A clear advantage of liquid nitrogen injection is elucidated from the point of heat transfer and pressurisation, and implications for use in a cryogenic engine are discussed.     

Experimental investigation of liquid jet outflow into a plane ventilated channel in self-oscillatory regimes

The results of an experimental investigation of self-oscillatory jet outflow into a plane channel with air injection in its dead-ended part are presented. It is found that at fixed channel geometry and water supply system the main flow parameters depend on the air injection rate and the relative cavity volume. It is shown that with increase in the gas injection at a fixed cavity volume the self-oscillation intensity monotonically increases and the oscillations considerably change in nature, whereas the Strouhal number varies only slightly. At a fixed air injection coefficient the self-oscillation amplitude decreases with increase in the cavity volume and the self-oscillations stop at a certain threshold value. The flow pattern evolution with increase in the injection coefficient is studied in detail using high-speed filming. The developed surge flow pattern is described in detail.     

Surface breakup of a non-turbulent liquid jet injected into a high pressure gaseous crossflow

We employ detailed numerical simulations to understand the physical mechanism underlying the surface breakup of a non-turbulent liquid jet injected transversely into a high pressure gaseous crossflow under isothermal conditions. The numerical observations reveal the existence of shear instability on the jet periphery as the primary destabilization mechanism. The temporal growth of such azimuthal instabilities leads to the formation of interface corrugations, which are eventually sheared off of the jet surface as sheet-like structures. The sheets next undergo disintegration into ligaments and drops during the surface breakup process. The proposed instability mechanism is inherently an inviscid mechanism, contrary to the previously suggested mechanism of surface breakup (known as “boundary layer stripping”), which is relied on a viscous interpretation. The numerically obtained length and time scales of the shear instabilities on the jet laterals are compared with the results of Behzad et al. (2015) on temporal linear stability analyses of a jet in crossflow at near the nozzle. The stability characteristics of the most amplified modes (i.e., the wavenumber and the corresponding growth rate) obtained from the numerical simulations and the stability analyses are in good agreement.     

Influence of the wall boundary layer thickness on a gas jet injected into a liquid crossflow

The effects of the wall boundary layer thickness on the development of an axisymmetric gas jet injected into a confined vertical water flow were investigated. The variations in the wall boundary layer were made by using suction at the wall through rectangular profiled slots. The water velocity around the two-phase jet was studied for several boundary layer thickness values by laser Doppler velocimetry. The gas jet outline was extracted by image processing applied on visualisations for a wide variety of water, gas and suction conditions. These comparisons showed that the boundary layer has no influence on jet development. The data showed that the interactions between flows near the injection do not develop downstream, which accounts for the absence of the two classical contrarotating vortices in the medium field of the jet. The influence of the gas pocket, and then of buoyancy, is predominant over other phenomena. Received: 15 December 1999 / Accepted: 29 August 2000     

Initiation of cavitation by injection of hot steam into a cold liquid jet

The problem of the dynamics of a hot steam bubble in the nonuniform flowfield of a plane cold liquid jet is considered. The motion of the bubble along the symmetry axis is analyzed with allowance for nonequilibrium condensation and heat conduction by the steam and the liquid. The domain of jet and steam parameters corresponding to the dynamic cavitation bubble initiation mode, is evaluated.Moscow. Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 5, pp. 91–100, September–October, 1995.     

Experimental investigation of hypersonic flight-duplicated shock tunnel characteristics

Acta Mechanica Sinica - Hypersonic air-breathing propulsion is one of the key techniques for future aviation and the ground aerodynamic testing for full scale test models with sufficient test time...     

Experimental investigation of inclined liquid water jet flow onto vertically located superhydrophobic surfaces

In this study, the behaviour of an inclined water jet, which is impinged onto hydrophobic and superhydrophobic surfaces, has been investigated experimentally. Water jet was impinged with different inclination angles (15°–45°) onto five different hydrophobic surfaces made of rough polymer, which were held vertically. The water contact angles on these surfaces were measured as 102°, 112°, 123°, 145° and 167° showing that the last surface was superhydrophobic. Two different nozzles with 1.75 and 4 mm in diameters were used to create the water jet. Water jet velocity was within the range of 0.5–5 m/s, thus the Weber number varied from 5 to 650 and Reynolds number from 500 to 8,000 during the experiments. Hydrophobic surfaces reflected the liquid jet depending on the surface contact angle, jet inclination angle and the Weber number. The variation of the reflection angle with the Weber number showed a maximum value for a constant jet angle. The maximum value of the reflection angle was nearly equal to half of the jet angle. It was determined that the viscous drag decreases as the contact angle of the hydrophobic surface increases. The drag force on the wall is reduced dramatically with superhydrophobic surfaces. The amount of reduction of the average shear stress on the wall was about 40%, when the contact angle of the surface was increased from 145° to 167°. The area of the spreading water layer decreased as the contact angle of the surface increased and as the jet inclination angle, Weber number and Reynolds number decreased.     

Experimental investigation of impinging jet arrays

We report on measurements of the velocity field and turbulence fluctuations in a hexagonal array of circular jets, impinging normally on a plane wall, using particle image velocimetry (PIV). Results for mean velocity and turbulent stresses are presented in various horizontal and vertical planes. From the measurements, we have identified some major features of impinging jet arrays and we discuss their mutual interaction, collision on the plate, and consequent backwash, which generate recirculating motion between the jets. The length of the jet core, the production of turbulence kinetic energy, and the model of the exhaust mechanisms for spent fluid are also discussed. The measurements indicated that the interaction between the self-induced cross flow and the wall jets resulted in the formation of a system of horseshoe-type vortices that circumscribe the outer jets of the array. The instantaneous snapshots of the velocity field reveal some interesting features of the flow dynamics, indicating a breakdown of some of the jets before reaching the plate, which may have consequences on the distribution of the instantaneous heat transfer.List of symbols D_m Nozzle diameter in multiple jet array nozzle plate (m) - D_s Pipe diameter in single jet rig (m) - H Distance between nozzle and impingement plate (m) - k Turbulent kinetic energy (m²/s²) - L Pipe length (m) - P_k Production of turbulent kinetic energy (m²/s³) - P_uu , P_vv Normal components of P_k (m²/s³) - P_uv Shear component of P_k (m²/s³) - s Pitch (m) - U_bulk Surface-averaged exit velocity (single jet) (m/s) - U_CL Center line jet exit velocity (jet array), m/s - u, v Mean velocity components in x and y directions (m/s) - u, v, w Instantaneous velocity in x, y, and z directions (m/s) - u, v, w Velocity fluctuation in x, y, and z directions (m/s) - u², v², w² Reynolds normal stress components (m²/s²) - uv Reynolds shear stress component (m²/s²) - x, z Coordinates parallel to impingement plate (m) - y Coordinate perpendicular to impingement plate (m)     

Experimental analysis of volatile liquid injection into a fluidized bed

Experiments were conducted on a lab-scale fluidized bed to study the distribution of liquid ethanol injected into fluidized catalyst particles. Electrical capacitance measurements were used to study the liquid distribution inside the bed, and a new method was developed to determine the liquid content inside fluidized beds of fluid catalytic cracking particles. The results shed light on the complex liquid injection region and reveal the strong effect of superficial gas velocity on liquid distribution inside the fluidized bed, which is also affected by the imbibition of liquid inside particle pores. Particle internal porosity was found to play a major role when the changing mass of liquid in the bed was monitored. The results also showed that the duration of liquid injection affected liquid–solid contact inside the bed and that liquid–solid mixing was not homogeneous during the limited liquid injection time.     

Model validation image data for breakup of a liquid jet in crossflow: part I

We have applied three different imaging diagnostics: particle imaging velocimetry, high-speed shadowgraphy, and ballistic imaging, to observe the breakup of a liquid jet in a crossflow of air under a variety of conditions. The experimental system was designed to provide well-controlled conditions with minimal amounts of turbulence in the liquid jet and the gaseous crossflow. A variety of Weber numbers and momentum flux ratios were studied in order to provide a sizable data set for the validation of computational models. This paper briefly describes the three spray imaging techniques, outlines the results obtained to-date, and tabulates image statistics for each of ten spray conditions at varying distances from the spray nozzle orifice. The end result is a first installment in what will become a comprehensive model validation data set for jets in crossflow for use by computational fluid dynamics modelers.     

Effects of the jet-to-crossflow momentum ratio on a sonic jet into a supersonic crossflow

Numerical investigation of a transverse sonic jet injected into a supersonic crossflow was carried out using large-eddy simulation for a free-stream Mach number M = 1.6 and a Reynolds number Re = 1.38 × 10⁵ based on the jet diameter. Effects of the jet-to-crossflow momentum ratio on various fundamental mechanisms dictating the intricate flow phenomena, including flow structures, turbulent characters and frequency behaviors, have been studied. The complex flow structures and the relevant flow features are discussed to exhibit the evolution of shock structures, vortical structures and jet shear layers. The strength of the bow shock increases and the sizes of the barrel shock and Mach disk also increase with increasing momentum ratio. Turbulent characters are clarified to be closely related to the flow structures. The jet penetration increases with the increase of the momentum ratio. Moreover, the dominant frequencies of the flow structures are obtained using spectral analysis. The results obtained in this letter provide physical insight in understanding the mechanisms relevant to this complex flow.     

Experimental investigation of a three-dimensional viscous underexpanded jet

The three-dimensional interaction of jet issuing from two- and four-nozzle systems into ambient space or an outer flow has been investigated experimentally. The range of the important parameters include the following: pressure imbalance n=P_a=/P=10–1.5·10², Mach number at the nozzle exit M_a=3.15, Mach number of the outer flow M=0, 3.1, and 6, the flow is turbulent in the mixing layer (P_a and P are the static pressures at the nozzle exit and in the outer flow). It is shown that the interaction of the jets broadens a multinozzle jet considerably in the plane of interaction, which is a plane of symmetry and which passes through the axis of the system between neighboring nozzles. The cross-sectional shape of a four-nozzle jet is cross-like over the entire length of the initial segment of the jet. The width of the mixing layer in the plane of interaction is considerably larger than in the central plane, which passes through the axis of opposed nozzles.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 5, pp. 21–26, September–October, 1974.     

Experimental investigation flow structure and hydraulic resistance of a cylindrical duct with injection a fan slot jet

The paper describes results of an experimental study of pressure and velocity fields arising during normal injection of a radial slot jet into ducted flow. The experiments were carried out for slots of two different widths and for injection parameters varying in a broad range. The pressure profile along the duct length plotted in generalized coordinates was found to be quite a universal distribution. Experimental correlations for the minimum rarefaction in the separation region behind the injected jet were obtained, and comparison was made with the results of simplest numerical analysis. Results of measurements of local hydraulic losses are presented for the duct section where the normal injection of the slot jet was organized. The experimental data are shown to be underestimated compared with the results predicted by the theory of perfect mixing for a ducted flow with mass supply. The possible reasons of hydraulic losses coefficient behavior are discussed.     

Transition control of Mach 6.5 hypersonic flat plate boundary layer

An artificial disturbance is introduced into the boundary layer over a flat plate to investigate the effect on the transition process in the Mach 6.5 wind tunnel at Peking University. A linear stability theory(LST) is utilized to predict the evolution of the eigenmodes, and the frequency of the artificial disturbance is chosen according to the LST results. The artificial disturbance is generated by glowing discharge on the surface of the plate close to the leading edge. The Rayleigh-scattering visualization and particle image velocimetry(PIV) measurements are performed. By comparing the experimental results with artificial disturbances with those under the natural condition(without artificial disturbances), the present paper shows that the second-mode instability waves are significantly stimulated by the artificial disturbances, and the boundary layer transition is effectively triggered.