Experimental study of the flow structure in cross flows

This study investigates the development of flow and mixing processes in the stationary and impulsive transverse jets with a small degree and frequency of blowing pulsation. Velocity field measurements were carried out using the TR PIV technique. The fields of statistical moments are obtained. It is shown that when a cross flow is injected, the main flow is turbulized, while the rise of the pulsating jet depends on the outflow mode. It is shown that with an increase in the frequency of pulsations of the transverse jet, it is more strongly “pressed” against the lower wall, maximum values of the intensity of pulsations of the transverse velocity component exceed by more than 1.5 times the values of pulsations of the transverse component.

A new compartmental model for describing the mixing behaviour in a multi-transversal jet reactor

The axial dispersion model (ADM) and tank-in-series model (TiSM) are conventionally used for determining mixing performance of a reactor, which is generated by transverse jets in many engineering applications. The effect of transverse jets on the mixing performance is not well determined by the ADM and TiSM when the Reynolds number of the mainstream flow is higher than ∼104. In this study, this problem was solved by a dispersive compartmental model (DCM). The DCM was a modification of the conventional compartmental model by adding a dispersive nature of plug flow compartment. The results of a series of tracer studies showed that the experimental data were better matched by the DCM than by the conventional models. The effect of transverse jets on the mixing characteristics was significant when the experimental data were modelled by the DCM. The DCM could be used for practical reactors where the E-curve shows a single peak.