Flow Development of a Liquid Sheet Issued Into Low-Speed Airstream

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amin Jaberi ◽  
Mehran Tadjfar
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Liquid Sheet ◽  
Liquid Jets ◽  
High Speed Photography ◽  
Low Speed ◽  
Liquid Sheets ◽  
Flow Development ◽  
Flow Feature ◽  
Subsonic Crossflow ◽  
Jet Characteristics

Abstract In this study, a liquid sheet with an aspect ratio of 90 and a thickness of 0.35 was experimentally investigated when issued into a low-speed subsonic crossflow. High speed photography and shadowgraphy technique were employed to capture the instantaneous physics of the liquid sheet. Flow visualizations were used to investigate the flow development of the liquid sheet. It was found that this flow exhibited a completely different flow structure than circular or other non-circular liquid sheets. It was found that the liquid sheet developed a concave-like shape in the presence of the transverse airstream. This phenomenon, named as inflated sheet, was absent in regular circular liquid jets injected into gaseous crossflow. It was revealed the inflated sheet was the main feature of the liquid sheet that made the jet characteristics unique. The flow feature of the inflated sheet structure and its alteration with flow condition was fully examined. Moreover, the width and trajectory of the liquid sheet were quantitatively studied at different Weber numbers and for the constant momentum ratio of 40. It was found that the fluid width could be a useful parameter to distinguish different regimes of the flow.

Flow Characteristics of Rectangular Liquid Jets Injected Into Low Subsonic Crossflow

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Tadjfar ◽  
A. Jaberi ◽  
R. Shokri
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Flow Characteristics ◽  
Combustion Efficiency ◽  
Liquid Jets ◽  
High Speed Photography ◽  
Aspect Ratios ◽  
Jet Trajectory ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Circular Holes ◽  
Subsonic Crossflow

Abstract Perpendicular injection of liquid jets into gaseous crossflow is well-known as an effective way to obtain good mixing between liquid fuel and air crossflow. Mostly, injectors with circular holes were used as the standard method of fuel spraying. However, recently a great attention to injectors with non-circular holes has emerged that aims to improve the quality of fuel mixing and consequently combustion efficiency. In the present work, rectangular injectors with different aspect ratios varying from 1 to 4 were experimentally studied. Using a wind tunnel with maximum air velocity of 42 m/s, tests were performed for a wide range of flow conditions including liquid-to-air momentum ratios of 10, 20, 30 and 40. Backlight shadowgraphy and high speed photography were employed to capture the instantaneous physics of the liquid jets discharged into gaseous crossflow. The flow physics of the rectangular liquid jets were investigated by means of flow visualizations. Different regimes of flow breakup including capillary, arcade, bag and multimode were observed for rectangular jets. Moreover, a new technique was used to calculate the trajectory of the liquid jets. It was shown the nozzle’s shape has no significant effect on jet trajectory. Also, the momentum ratio was found to has a profound effect on jet trajectory.

High-Speed Photography of Liquid Jets

1975 ◽  
pp. 442-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Gorham ◽  
J. E. Field
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Liquid Jets ◽  
High Speed Photography

Atomization of acoustically forced liquid sheets

2019 ◽  
Vol 880 ◽  
pp. 653-683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandip Dighe ◽  
Hrishikesh Gadgil
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Field ◽  
Cutoff Frequency ◽  
Liquid Sheet ◽  
Liquid Jets ◽  
Liquid Sheets ◽  
Aerodynamic Interaction ◽  
Transverse Acoustic ◽  
External Acoustic Field ◽  
Acoustic Forcing ◽  
Sheet Breakup

Atomization of a smooth laminar liquid sheet produced by the oblique impingement of two liquid jets and subjected to transverse acoustic forcing in quiescent ambient is investigated. The acoustic forcing perturbs the liquid sheet perpendicular to its plane, thereby setting up a train of sinuous waves propagating radially outwards from the impingement point. These sheet undulations grow as the wave speed decreases towards the edge of the sheet and the sheet characteristics, like intact length and mean drop size, reduce drastically as compared to the natural breakup. Our observations show that the effect of the acoustic field is perceptible over a continuous range of forcing frequencies. Beyond a certain forcing frequency, called the cutoff frequency, the effect of the external acoustic field ceases. The cutoff frequency is found to be an increasing function of the Weber number. Our measurements of the characteristics of spatially amplifying sinuous waves show that the instabilities responsible for the natural sheet breakup augment in the presence of external forcing. Combining the experimental observations and measurements, we conclude that the linear theory of aerodynamic interaction (Squire’s theory) (Squire, Brit. J. Appl. Phys., vol. 4 (6), 1953, pp. 167–169) predicts the important features of this phenomenon reasonably well.

Comparative study on interfacial oscillations of rectangular and elliptical liquid jets

2020 ◽  
Vol 234 (7) ◽  
pp. 1272-1286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amin Jaberi ◽  
Mehran Tadjfar
Keyword(s):  
Aspect Ratio ◽  
Weber Number ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Nozzle Geometry ◽  
Liquid Jets ◽  
High Speed Photography ◽  
Aspect Ratios ◽  
Water Jets ◽  
Switching Phenomenon ◽  
Axis Switching

The instability characteristics and flow structures of water jets injected from rectangular and elliptical nozzles with aspect ratios varying from 2 to 6 were experimentally studied and compared. Shadowgraph technique was employed for flow visualization, and structures on the liquid jet surface were captured using high speed photography. It was found that disturbances originating from the nozzle geometry initially perturbed the liquid column, and then, at high jet velocities, disturbances generated within the flow dominated the jet surface. It was also found that rectangular nozzles introduced more disturbances into the flow than the elliptical ones. The characteristic parameters of axis-switching phenomenon including wavelength, frequency, and amplitude were measured and compared. Axis-switching wavelength was found to increase linearly with Weber number. Also, the wavelengths of rectangular jets were longer than the elliptical jets. Further, the frequency of axis-switching was shown to be reduced with increase of both Weber number and aspect ratio. It was observed that the axis-switching amplitude increased monotonically, reached a peak, and then decreased gradually. It was also found that the axis-switching amplitude varied with Weber number. At lower values of Weber number, the rectangular nozzles had higher amplitude than the elliptical nozzles. However, at higher values of Weber number, this relation was reversed, and the elliptical nozzles had the higher axis-switching amplitudes. This reversal Weber number decreased with the orifice aspect ratio. The reversal Weber number for aspect ratio of 4 was about 289, and it had decreased to 144 for the aspect ratio of 6.

Experimental Characterization of Intrinsic Properties Associated With Air-Assisted Liquid Jet and Liquid Sheet

2018 ◽  
Vol 140 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Balaji ◽  
V. Sivadas ◽  
Vishnu Radhakrishna ◽  
Khushal Ashok Bhatija ◽  
K. Sai Charan
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Liquid Sheet ◽  
Interfacial Instability ◽  
Wave Number ◽  
Liquid Jets ◽  
Liquid Jet ◽  
Experimental Characterization ◽  
Interfacial Wave ◽  
Visualization Techniques

The present study focuses on experimental characterization of interfacial instability pertinent to liquid jet and liquid sheet in the first wind-induced zone. To accomplish this objective, the interfacial wave growth rate, critical wave number, and breakup frequency associated with air-assisted atomizer systems were extracted by utilizing high-speed flow visualization techniques. For a range of liquid to gas velocities tested, nondimensionalization with appropriate variables generates the corresponding correlation functions. These functions enable to make an effective comparison between interfacial wave developments for liquid jet and sheet configurations. It exhibits liquid sheets superiority over liquid jets in the breakup processes leading to efficient atomization.

Study on some Aspects of Breakup Characteristics of Power-Law Fluid with Impinging Jets Based on Mechanics Properties

2012 ◽  
Vol 625 ◽  
pp. 57-60
Author(s):  
En Dong Wang ◽  
Yan Yin ◽  
Qing Du
Keyword(s):  
Power Law ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Wave Length ◽  
Impinging Jets ◽  
Liquid Sheet ◽  
Liquid Jets ◽  
Power Law Fluid ◽  
Round Jets ◽  
Breakup Length ◽  
Jet Velocity

Shear-thinning power-law fluid is a kind of non-Newtonian fluid in which the viscosity is a function of shear rate. Impinging jets system is used to study the breakup characteristics of power-law liquid sheets formed by two symmetrical round jets in this study. High quality images are obtained from the experiment with a high speed camera and breakup length is extracted from the images. Closed-rim sheet, web-like sheet and ligaments sheet are observed with the increase of jet velocity. A series of images show that the wave length on the surface of sheets tends to decline as the jet velocity increases. At a low We number, the breakup length increases with an increasing We number. However, it first increases and then decreases when the liquid sheet breaks up at a high We number. The liquid jets with larger diameter collide to each other and lead to a liquid sheet with a smaller breakup length.

Experimental Investigation on Flow and Breakup of Two-Dimensional Liquid Jets

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amin Jaberi ◽  
Mehran Tadjfar
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Volume Flow Rate ◽  
Quantitative Description ◽  
Sheet Thickness ◽  
Liquid Jets ◽  
Liquid Jet ◽  
High Speed Photography ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Aspect Ratios ◽  
Wide Range

Abstract Studying of injectors with non-circular geometries has recently come to the spotlight of researchers as a potential technique to improve the liquid injection characteristics of different systems. In this work, the flow physics and breakup of two-dimensional liquid jets issued from flat slits into still air were experimentally investigated. Three injectors with aspect ratios of 30, 60 and 90 and thickness of 0.35 mm were manufactured to obtain two-dimensional liquid flow at the nozzle exit. The tests were performed for a wide range of volume flow rate, varying from 10 L/h to 240 L/h. Backlight shadowgraphy and high speed photography were employed to capture the flow dynamics of the jets. In order to capture every detail of the flow, photos of the liquid jet were taken from two views with 90° from each other. Using the visualizations, different regimes of the jet flow were explored and a regime map was proposed to distinguish these regimes based on the non-dimensional parameters of the liquid jet. Moreover, quantitative description of the main features of jet flows were obtained using an in-house image processing program. Measurements of different parameters including convergence length, maximum width, breakup length, sheet thickness to name a few, were conducted.

Experiments on the Injection of Elliptical Liquid Jets Into a Low Speed Airflow

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yosef Rezaei ◽  
Mehran Tadjfar
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Weber Number ◽  
Momentum Flux ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Flux Ratio ◽  
Major Axis ◽  
Liquid Jets ◽  
Liquid Jet ◽  
High Speed Camera ◽  
Subsonic Crossflow

An experimental investigation was performed to study the physics of liquid jets injected into a low subsonic crossflow. The jets are issued from elliptical and circular injectors with equivalent exit area. The liquid jet was visualized using shadowgraph technique and a high speed camera was used to record the instantaneous status of the jet. The liquid / air momentum flux ratio and air Weber number were varied to examine their effects on different parameters of the flow like liquid jet column trajectory, breakup point and breakup regimes. The major axis of the elliptical nozzle was aligned parallel and perpendicular to the air crossflow direction. Two different breakup modes were observed, column breakup and bag breakup. Based on the obtained results some characteristics of injected liquid jets into the air crossflow such as penetration depth and the trajectory of liquid jet were affected by changing the nozzle exit shape.

Impacts of Circular Liquid Jet Injection Angle Into Low Subsonic Crossflow

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Si. Kasmaiee ◽  
M. Tadjfar ◽  
Sa. Kasmaiee
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Flow Characteristics ◽  
Cross Flow ◽  
Liquid Jet ◽  
High Speed Photography ◽  
Interfacial Instabilities ◽  
Injection Angle ◽  
Circular Nozzle ◽  
Subsonic Crossflow ◽  
Working Liquid

Abstract One of the most common ways to obtain mixing between liquid and air, is by injecting the liquid jet into an incoming gaseous crossflow. The physics of this mixing flow is very complicated due to the presence of many flow interfacial instabilities. Usually, a perpendicular liquid jet into the cross flow airstream is used as the standard method of mixing. In the present work, the effect of the injection angle of the liquid flow emanated from a circular nozzle into airstream was experimentally investigated. The flow characteristics of the liquid jet were visualized by diffused backlight shadowgraph technique and high-speed photography. Water was used as the working liquid and tests were conducted into an incoming airstream at room temperature and pressure. A circular nozzle with 1.5 mm in diameter was used. The injection angles of the 30, 45, 60 and 90 degrees of the liquid jet into the airstream were considered. Different parameters of liquid jet flow such as breakup length and trajectory were measured. It was found that at low angles the path was independent from the momentum ratio.

INTERACTION OF TWO DIFFERENTLY SIZED BUBBLES IN A FREE FIELD

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 180-184
Author(s):  
LUP WAI CHEW ◽  
BOO CHEONG KHOO ◽  
EVERT KLASEBOER ◽  
SIEW-WAN OHL
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Free Field ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Separation Distance ◽  
Liquid Jets ◽  
Size Difference ◽  
High Speed Photography ◽  
Distinct Region ◽  
Bubble Interactions ◽  
Multiple Bubbles

The interaction between two different sized (spark created, non-equilibrium) bubbles is studied by using high speed photography. The bubble size ranges from 2 to 7 mm. The experimental results are compared to that of the similar sized bubbles reported in the literature. Interestingly, all the four major behaviors of bubble-bubble interactions (i.e. 'bubble-collapsed' induced liquid jets directed away from each other, liquid jets directed towards each other, bubble coalescence and the 'catapult' effect) are observed which bear much similarity to that found for similar sized bubbles' interaction. The main parameters studied/varied are the size of the bubbles, the dimensionless separation distance and the phase difference between the two bubbles. The results obtained are consistent with the cases of similar sized bubbles reported in the literature, with each type of behavior occupying a distinct region in the graphical plot. This indicates that the results for the (special) similar sized bubbles can be generalized to cases with different sized bubbles. Many of the real life applications such as cavitations corrosions often involve bubbles with significant size difference, thus the present findings are useful in predicting the behavior of multiple bubbles in many situations.

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