CFD Flow Model and its Effects on the Calculations of High Pressure Sprays

The computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model has been used to investigate the two-phase flow phenomena such as high-pressure water jet. High-pressure water jet is a new technology and develops rapidly due to its advantages in recent years. In this research, the effects of different models on the macroscopic parameters of jet propagation characteristics of high pressure water jet have been investigated numerically through the CFD technique. The simulations of the water jet with three kinds of k-ε models (i.e., standard, RNG, and realizable k-ε models) have been compared under the same conditions. It may be concluded that, the results calculated by the realizable k-epsilon model agree well with the experiment data and the realizable k-epsilon model would be utilized in the latter simulation. The agreement of the predicted data and experimental data are quite reasonable, it demonstrates that the CFD technique can be successfully applied to high-pressure water jet.