Analysis of Turbulent Scales in Variable Density Jets Using Laser Anemometry Techniques

Author(s):  
S. Boujemaa ◽  
M. Amielh ◽  
A. Gharbi ◽  
F. Anselmet

This experimental study is concerned with the effect of density variations on the development of a turbulent jet. Our interest concerns the large turbulent scales in order to understand how density variations affect these structures involved in the mixing process. The integral scale evolutions are estimated from laser velocimetry measurements (PIV or LDV). Comparisons between the results obtained in an air jet and a helium jet are given in the development zone (X/Dj < 20), so that the effect of strong density variations (ratio 1 to 7) on these scales is deduced.

Author(s):  
Amir Allaf-Akbari ◽  
A. Gordon L. Holloway ◽  
Joseph Hall

The current experimental study investigates the effect of longitudinal core flow on the formation and structure of a trailing vortex. The vortex is generated using four airfoils connected to a central hub through which a jet flow is added to the vortex core. Time averaged vorticity, circumferential velocity, and turbulent kinetic energy are studied. The statistics of vortex wandering are identified and corrections applied to the vorticity distribution. The vortex generator used in this study was built on the basis of the design described by Beninati et al. [1]. It uses four NACA0012 airfoils connected to a central hub. The wings orientation can be adjusted such that each contributes to a strong trailing vortex on the center of the test section. The vortex generator also had the capability to deliver an air jet directed longitudinally through a hole in the hub at the joint of the airfoils. Tests were done without the jet and with the air jet at jet velocities of 10 and 20 m/s. Planar PIV was used to measure the velocity field in the vicinity of the vortex core. The measurements were taken at 3 chords behind the vortex generator.


Author(s):  
V.A. Altunin ◽  
K.V. Altunin ◽  
M.R. Abdullin ◽  
M.R. Chigarev ◽  
I.N. Aliev ◽  
...  

The paper discovers the reasons for the transfer of single-use or reusable ground, air, aerospace, and space-based engines and power plants from liquid hydrocarbon fuels and coolers to gaseous fuels, or rather, to liquefied natural gas methane. The study gives specific examples of creating a new technology and using methane fuel and fuel in the existing units; lists the classes of methane engines and power plants, among which the main ones being piston engines and internal combustion power plants, air-jet engines and power plants, liquid propellant rocket engines and power plants. Findings of research show that it is necessary to experimentally study gaseous methane, so that it could be effectively used in advanced single-use or reusable ground, air, aerospace and space-based engines and power plants, and their features should be taken into account when designing and developing new technologies. The study introduces the results of the experimental study of thermal processes in gaseous methane during its natural convection, describes the experimental base in detail, as well as the procedure for conducting experiments, and develops methods for calculating the heat transfer coefficient to gaseous methane relying on the research results.


Author(s):  
P. J. Vermeulen ◽  
Wai Keung Yu

The mixing by an acoustically pulsed axisymmetrical air-jet, flowing into the atmosphere, has been studied by means of velocity and temperature profile measurements. The strength of the velocity pulsation imparted to the jet flow and of the associated toroidal vortices were also measured. The entrainment rate was increased by up to two times, with the majority of the extra entrainment occurring over the first five diameters downstream of the jet orifice, where toroidal vortices are formed and attain their greatest strength. The jet response depends on Strouhal number and appears to be optimum at about 0.25. The response starts to saturate at the limit of pulsation strength used.


1991 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 1385-1392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth B. Southerland ◽  
John R. Porter ◽  
Werner J. A. Dahm ◽  
Kenneth A. Buch

2005 ◽  
Vol 128 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Sansoucy ◽  
Patrick H. Oosthuizen ◽  
Gamal Refai-Ahmed

An experimental study was conducted to investigate the heat transfer from a parallel flat plate heat sink under a turbulent impinging air jet. A horizontal nozzle plate confined the target surface. The jet was discharged from a sharp-edged nozzle in the nozzle plate. Average Nusselt numbers are reported for Pr=0.7, 5000⩽Re⩽30,000, L∕d=2.5, and 0.833 at H∕d=3 where L, H, and d define the length of the square heat source, nozzle-to-target spacing, and nozzle diameter, respectively. Tests were also conducted for an impinging flow over a flat plate, flush with the top surface of the target plate. The average Nusselt numbers from the heat sink were compared to those for a flat plate to determine the overall performance of the heat sink in a confined impingement arrangement. The experimental results were compared with the numerical predictions obtained in an earlier study. Although the average Nusselt numbers obtained from numerical simulations differed from the experimental measurements by 18%, the disagreement is much less significant when related to the junction temperature. Under typical conditions, it was shown that such discrepancy in the Nusselt number lead to an error of 6% in the prediction of the junction temperature of the device.


Author(s):  
Chadia Haidar ◽  
Rachid Boutarfa ◽  
Mohamed Sennoune ◽  
Souad Harmand

This work focuses on the numerical and experimental study of convective heat transfer in a rotor of a discoidal the machine with an eccentric impinging jet. Convective heat transfers are determined experimentally in steady state on the surface of a single rotating disk. The experimental technique is based on the use of infrared thermography to access surface temperature measurement, and on the numerical resolution of the energy equation in steady-state, to evaluate local convective coefficients. The results from the numerical simulation are compared with heat transfer experiments for rotational Reynolds numbers between 2.38×105 and 5.44×105 and for the jet's Reynolds numbers ranging from 16.5×103 to 49.6 ×103. A good agreement between the two approaches was obtained in the case of a single rotating disk, which confirms us in the choice of our numerical model. On the other hand, a numerical study of the flow and convective heat transfer in the case of an unconfined rotor-stator system with an eccentric air jet impinging and for a dimensionless spacing G=0.02, was carried out. The results obtained revealed the presence of different heat transfer zones dominated either by rotation only, by the air flow only or by the dynamics of the rotation flow superimposed on that of the air flow. Critical radii on the rotor surface have been identified


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