scholarly journals Response of High-Pressure Micro Water Jets to Static and Dynamic Nonuniform Electric Fields

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Shi ◽  
Jian Cao ◽  
Kornel F. Ehmann

The manipulation of the trajectory of high-pressure micro water jets has the potential to greatly improve the accuracy of water jet related manufacturing processes. An experimental study was conducted to understand the basic static and dynamic responses of high-pressure micro water jet systems in the presence of nonuniform electric fields. A single electrode was employed to create a nonuniform electric field to deflect a high-pressure micro water jet toward the electrode by the dielectrophoretic force generated. The water jet's motions were precisely recorded by a high-speed camera with a 20× magnification and the videos postprocessed by a LabVIEW image processing program to acquire the deflections. The experiments revealed the fundamental relationships between three experimental parameters, i.e., voltage, pressure, and the distance between the water jet and the electrode and the deflection of the water jet in both nonuniform static and dynamic electric fields. In the latter case, electric signals at different frequencies were employed to experimentally investigate the jet's dynamic response, such as response time, frequency, and the stability of the water jet's motion. A first-order system model was proposed to approximate the jet's response to dynamic input signals. The work can serve as the basis for the development of closed-loop control systems for manipulating the trajectory of high-pressure micro water jets.

2014 ◽  
Vol 628 ◽  
pp. 186-189
Author(s):  
Meng Xiong Zeng ◽  
Jin Feng Zhao ◽  
Wen Ouyang

The control system performance requirement was divided into three parts. They were the stability, rapidity and accuracy. The time-frequency domain analysis in the requirements of three performance were measured through quantitative performance index. The mutual restriction of time-frequency performance and system characteristic parameters of normal second order was discussed. The correlation of system time-frequency performance index was established. The relationship between time-frequency performance indexes in standard two order system was extended to higher order system. The mutually constraining and time-frequency correlation between each performance index was obtained by analysis and calculation. The work had been done above had practical significance to reflect the system dynamic performance in different analytical domains.


2021 ◽  
pp. 014459872110520
Author(s):  
Yabin Gao ◽  
Xin Xiang ◽  
Ziwen Li ◽  
Xiaoya Guo ◽  
Peizhuang Han

Hydraulic slotting has become one of the most common technologies adopted to increase permeability in low permeability in coal field seams. There are many factors affecting the rock breaking effects of water jets, among which the impact force cannot be ignored. To study the influencing effects of contact surface shapes on jet flow patterns and impact force, this study carried out experiments involving water jet impingement planes and boreholes under different pressure conditions. The investigations included numerical simulations under solid boundary based on gas–liquid coupling models and indoor experiments under high-speed camera observations. The results indicated that when the water jets impinged on different contact surfaces, obvious reflection flow occurred, and the axial velocity had changed through three stages during the development process. Moreover, the shapes of the contact surfaces, along with the outlet pressure, were found to have impacts on the angles and velocities of the reflected flow. The relevant empirical formulas were summarized according to this study's simulation results. In addition, the flow patterns and shapes of the contact surfaces were observed to have influencing effects on the impact force. An impact force model was established in this study based on the empirical formula, and the model was verified using both the simulation and experimental results. It was confirmed that the proposed model could provide important references for the optimization of the technical parameters water jet systems, which could provide theoretical support for the further intelligent and efficient transformation of coal mine drilling water jet technology.


2022 ◽  
Vol 934 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.-Y. Yuan ◽  
B.-Y. Ni ◽  
Q.-G. Wu ◽  
Y.-Z. Xue ◽  
D.-F. Han

Ice breaking has become one of the main problems faced by ships and other equipment operating in an ice-covered water region. New methods are always being pursued and studied to improve ice-breaking capabilities and efficiencies. Based on the strong damage capability, a high-speed water jet impact is proposed to be used to break an ice plate in contact with water. A series of experiments of water jet impacting ice were performed in a transparent water tank, where the water jets at tens of metres per second were generated by a home-made device and circular ice plates of various thicknesses and scales were produced in a cold room. The entire evolution of the water jet and ice was recorded by two high-speed cameras from the top and front views simultaneously. The focus was the responses of the ice plate, such as crack development and breakup, under the high-speed water jet loads, which involved compressible pressure ${P_1}$ and incompressible pressure ${P_2}$ . According to the main cause and crack development sequence, it was found that the damage of the ice could be roughly divided into five patterns. On this basis, the effects of water jet strength, ice thickness, ice plate size and boundary conditions were also investigated. Experiments validated the ice-breaking capability of the high-speed water jet, which could be a new auxiliary ice-breaking method in the future.


Author(s):  
Hiroshi Yoshida ◽  
Kennosuke Uemura ◽  
Kenji Yoshida ◽  
Isao Kataoka

Water jet is utilized in various industrial application such as cutting carious materials and soil. In particular, jet grouting for soil improvement is one of the most important application of water jet under high pressure and high liquid flow rate. Such technology is already in practical use in civil engineering. In order to improve the efficiency and performance of jet grouting, it is quite important to clarify the hydrodynamic structure of water jet under high pressure and high flow rate. However, basic researches on this subject are quite insufficient both experimentally and analytically. Water jet utilized in jet grouting is usually very high speed ( up to 500 m/s) two-phase dispersed flow. Therefore, it is quite difficult to make visual observation of such water jet using conventional optical methods. In the present work, the authors utilized high sensitive CCD camera with image intensifier of which gate speed is 10 ns. Using this optical device, the authors obtained still image of high speed water jet for the first time. Visual observation revealed that high speed water jet is composed of very fine droplets and has complicated structures such as swirl and cluster of droplets. Velocity of water jet was also measured using two consecutive images taken between 10 microsecond. Such direct measurement of jet velocity of high speed water jet has not been carried out so far. The result indicated that jet speed (droplet speed) is even very high even at the boundary of water jet. Measure water jet velocity was reasonably correlated with jet velocity at the exit of nozzle.


2006 ◽  
Vol 120 (7) ◽  
pp. 600-601 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Ahmad ◽  
K Midwinter ◽  
R Capper

We report a case of upper airway obstruction following high-pressure water jet injury to the pharynx incurred from a car wash jet. Injuries from high-pressure water jets are relatively rare and, to the best of our knowledge, airway obstruction as a result has not been reported. Since this unusual injury may be associated with life-threatening complications, it must be promptly recognized and treated.


2021 ◽  
pp. 095745652110307
Author(s):  
Rajasekhara Reddy Mutra ◽  
J Srinivas ◽  
Jakeer Hussain Shaik ◽  
Maddela Chinna Obaiah ◽  
Gunji Balamurali ◽  
...  

The turbocharger rotors are often supported on the dual film floating ring bearings that are meant for high-speed applications. The damping ability of these bearings is relatively high. However, due to highly nonlinear bearing forces, often system instability occurs. The present work focuses on the dynamic analysis and active vibration control studies of a practical turbocharger rotor system with the use electromagnetic actuator (EMA) system. Initially, the system is analyzed using the finite element approach. The inner and outer film forces are considered along with rotor imbalance forces. The dynamic responses at the critical operating speeds are obtained numerically. To minimize the vibration amplitudes, a tiny EMA system is installed at one of the nodes along the shaft. The effect of the EMA parameters such as the number of turns of winding coil around a pole ( N c) and pole-face area ( A a) on the response of the system is studied. Further, an open-loop control configuration is practically studied by using a vibration shaker at the bearing node under different operating speeds, and the percentage reduction in critical vibration amplitudes is recorded. The EMA system is effectively controlling the high-speed rotor system vibrations. The EMA parameters N c and A a are influencing the system vibration response. Further, an experimental result has given considerable vibration reduction with the present approach.


2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Jasper ◽  
Jeanette Hussong ◽  
Ralph Lindken

AbstractHigh-pressure water jets bear a great technological potential to enhance geothermal deep drilling. Compared to existing water cutting technologies, significantly different operation conditions are encountered under deep-drilling conditions, such as high ambient pressures. The fundamental fluid mechanics are significantly affected by those operation conditions. In this work we examine the influence of increasing ambient pressure of up to 12.0 MPa on the water jet characteristics under submerged drilling conditions. PIV measurements of the jet flow field at changing cavitation numbers reveal two characteristic regimes, which are distinguished by a critical cavitation number. In the cavitating regime, the jet decays considerably faster with increasing distance to the nozzle than in the non-cavitating regime. In addition to that, an increasing cavitation intensity shortens the potential core length of the water jet and increases the jet spreading angle and with this has a similar effect on the jet as increasing turbulence intensity in single-phase flows. Related to the decreasing kinetic energy of the jet in the cavitating regime, the resulting impact force of the water jet on the specimen surface decreases with increasing cavitation intensity. Our investigations indicate that a technology transfer from water jet cutting to submerged jet drilling requires adjustments of both nozzle geometries and jet operation conditions. Graphic abstract


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Timur Dogan ◽  
Hamid Sadat-Hosseini ◽  
Frederick Stern

Verification and validation of computational fluid dynamic simulations are performed at model and full scales for the high-speed littoral combat ship (LCS) surface combatant, including the effects of hook, interceptors, and water-jet propulsion. Predictions of the body force thrust, sinkage, and trim use a speed controller for attaining self-propulsion. Two methods for water-jet performance are used: 1) evaluation of forces based on integration of the stress over the wetted area of the hull and water-jet duct, pump casing, and nozzle (integral method) and 2) ITTC (2005) water-jet test procedure (control volume method). The comparison errors at model (resistance, sinkage, and trim) and full (power and trim) scales are satisfactory using both Froude (Fr) scaled model- and full-scale trial data, including the effects of the interceptors and water jets (WJ) on resistance/power, sinkage, and trim. For the model-scale model without WJs, the negative bottom hydrodynamic pressure near the water-jet inlets are observed without and with the hook simulations, and experiments with the hook. The negative bottom vertical force near the water-jet inlets for the simulations without the hook supports Savitsky’s (2014) assertion that semi-displacement monohulls do not exhibit hydrodynamic lift and disproves Giles’ (1992) assertion to the contrary. The hook and interceptors do not affect the pressure distribution significantly near the water-jet inlets. For the full scale model, the WJs induce bow up trim for the simulations and interpolated (between conditions)- and Fr scaled model-scale experiments. The negative bottom pressure and vertical force near the water-jet inlet for the simulations disprove Giles’ (1992) assertion that the WJs provide additional hydrodynamic lift. This is further supported by the comparisons of the vertical force % thrust vs. inlet velocity ratio for the LCS, with results shown in Bulten (2005) for a high-speed motor yacht. Bulten (2005) shows positive vertical force for inlet velocity ratios ≥ 1.25. However, LCS operates in the regime of an inlet velocity ≤ 1.2; thus, consistent with Bulten (2005), the vertical force is negative. The nonlinear effects between the interceptors and WJs are small such that a linear combination can provide a reasonable approximation.


When rocks are cut in coal mines by steel picks, frictional heating sometimes causes ignition of methane; high speed water jets may provide a method of cutting which is free from this hazard. A high speed water jet emerging from a nozzle slows down with increasing distance from the nozzle and breaks up into water drops. Studies were made of the behaviour of water jets: in most of the experiments the jets were produced by pressures of 600 atm., but some results are given of experiments at pressures up to 5000 atm. The jets were examined by short exposure optical photography with several different methods of illumination (parallel transmitted, diffuse, and schlieren) and by X-ray photography. In order to find out how the jet velocity decays with distance from a nozzle, and to compare nozzle designs, a target plate containing a hole smaller than the jet diameter was placed so that the jet impinged at right angles on to it, and the target plate was moved until the maximum pressure at the hole was found: this was measured for different distances from the nozzle. Nozzle shapes suggested in literature for minimizing jet dispersion were studied and an empirical investigation of a variety of nozzle shapes was carried out. Several nozzle shapes were found which gave good results, i.e. the maximum pressure on the target plate was half the pump pressure at a distance of about 350 nozzle diameters. In many cutting applications the first stage in the process would be the impingement of a water jet on a surface at right angles. The initial cutting would depend upon the stress distribution within the target, which in turn would depend upon the pressure distribution produced by the water jet on the surface. A theory is given of the pressure distribution on the target plate, which predicts that the pressure will fall to zero at about 2.6 jet radii: this was found to be in good agreement with experiments. Preliminary studies were made of the penetration of several types of rock by water jets of velocities up to about 1000 m/s (pressures about 5000 atm). It was found that a 1 mm diameter jet drills a cylindrical hole about 5 mm in diameter. The pressure that the water jet produces at the bottom of such holes was measured and shown to fall off to about one-tenth of the nozzle pressure at a hole depth of about 4 cm.


2005 ◽  
Vol 498-499 ◽  
pp. 482-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo Ruperto Martín Cortés ◽  
Wildor Theodoro Hennies ◽  
Carlos Tadeu Lauand ◽  
Francisco Rolando Valenzuela-Díaz

The application of high-pressure abrasive water jets (AWJ) has evolved quickly in some fields of engineering. At Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo, one application has particular interest that is the cutting of friable materials, as rock and ceramics. The main aspect in this field is the cut at the beneficiation process of end product in dimension stone plates. How much the cut of plates, by different kind of AWJ methods, was the research of a PhD work of one of the authors. The abrasive water jet equipment, installed in the Laboratory of Rock Mechanics of the Mining and Petroleum Engineering Department, was used. Some fundamentals considerations regarding, the employed single and multiple passes methods of AWJ to cut rocks, are discussed.


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