Study on three-dimensional expansion characteristics of four wall combustion-gas jets in confined liquid space

To explore further the launch mechanism of the new underwater launching technology proposed in this paper, the expansion characteristics of four wall combustion-gas jets in confined liquid space must be studied firstly. The experimental device is designed, and the high-speed digital photographic system is adopted to obtain the expansion sequence processes of Taylor cavities formed by the four wall jets. Meanwhile, the influence of the injection pressure on the axial expansion property of the four wall jets is discussed. Based on the experiments, a three-dimensional unsteady mathematical model is established to simulate the turbulent flow process of the four wall jets expanding in liquid, and the temporal and spatial distribution laws of phase, pressure, temperature, and velocity and the evolution rules of vortices are illustrated in detail. Results show that, accompanied by the jets expanding downstream, the four wall combustion-gas jets get close to each other and achieve convergence eventually under induction of the interference effect between multiple jets. Meanwhile, the heads of the Taylor cavities separate from the observation chamber wall and offset to the central axis of the observation chamber with time going on. The numerical simulation results of the four wall combustion-gas jets coincide well with the experimental data.

Experimental Study of the Diffusion of a Confined Wall Jet through a Perforated Plate: Influence of the Porosity and the Geometry

This paper investigated lateral diffusion of a confined two-dimensional wall jet (air inlet height: 5 cm) through a perforated plate. We considered two plates with porosities of and . The plates were positioned at distances of 10 cm and 20 cm below the jet inlet. The experiments were realized using 2D Laser Doppler Anemometer (LDA). Different profiles of mean and fluctuating velocities are presented. The presence of a perforated plate strongly modified the airflow pattern compared to an empty enclosure. The velocities above and below the plate depend on several parameters, including the porosity and the plate’s position relative to the inlet slot and the longitudinal position. The difference between the flow velocity above and below the plates could not be related using a universal formula that depends on these parameters. We also investigated the influence of a porous media of a height of 20 cm (a stack of spheres having a diameter of 3.75 cm) located below the perforated plate. The results highlight that the porous medium strengthens the effects of the perforated plate on the flow.

Effect of wall jet on the bubble dynamics near arigid wall

The bubble dynamic near a rigid wall with a wall jet was investigated by codynamics(CFD)method with the volume of fluid(VOF)model,which had been validated by vious experimental data.The effects of different velocities of the wall jet and ditances on the bubble dynamics were studied.The results show that the bubble is squjet due to more force added on the bubble.When the velocity of the wall jet increa,the wall anthe pressure along the wall at collapse time increase because of the extra push indAs the stand-off distance increases,the pressure along the wall first increases then decrethe distance from the bubble to the wall increases.

Experimental and Numerical Investigation of the Diffusion of a Confined Wall Jet through a Perforated Plate

When performing numerical modeling of fluid flows where a clear medium is adjacent to a porous medium, a degree of difficulty related to the condition at the interface between the two media, where slip velocity exists, is encountered. A similar situation can be found when a jet flow interacts with a perforated plate. The numerical modeling of a perforated plate by meshing in detail each hole is most often impossible in a practical case (many holes with different shapes). Therefore, perforated plates are often modeled as porous zones with a simplified hypothesis based on pressure losses related to the normal flow through the plate. Nevertheless, previous investigations of flow over permeable walls highlight the impossibility of deducing a universal analytical law governing the slip velocity coefficient since the latter depends on many parameters such as the Reynolds number, porosity, interface structure, design of perforations, and flow direction. This makes the modeling of such a configuration difficult. The present study proposes an original numerical interface law for a perforated plate. It is used to model the turbulent jet flow interacting with a perforated plate considered as a fictitious porous medium without a detailed description of the perforations. It considers the normal and tangential effects of the flow over the plate. Validation of the model is realized through comparison with experimental data.

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION OF THE INTERACTION BETWEEN WALL JET AND OFFSET JET

The interaction between a plane wall jet and a parallel offset jet is studied through the Large Eddy Simulation （LES）. In order to compare with the related experimental data, the offset ratio is set to be 1.0 and the Reynolds number Re is 1.0× 104 with respect to the jet height L and the exit velocity U0. The Finite Volume Method （FVM） with orthogonal-mesh （6.17× 106 nodes） is used to discretize governing equations. The large eddies are obtained directly, while the small eddies are simulated by using the Dynamic Smagorinsky-Lily Model （DSLM） and the Dynamic Kinetic energy Subgrid-scale Model （DKSM）. Comparisons between computational results and experimental data show that the DKSM is especially effective in predicting the mean stream-wise velocity, the half-width of the velocity and the decay of the maximum velocity. The variations of the mean stream-wise velocity and the turbulent intensity at several positions are also obtained, and their distributions agree well with the measurements. The further analysis of dilute characteristics focuses on the tracer concentration, such as the distributions of the concentration （i.e., C / C0 or C / C,,）, the boundary layer thickness 6c and the half-width of the concentration b., the decay of the maximum concentration （ C / Co） along the downstream direction. The turbulence mechanism is also analyzed in some aspects, such as the coherent structure, the correlation function and the Probability Density Function （PDF） of the fluctuating velocity. The results show that the interaction between the two jets is strong near the jet exit and they are fully merged after a certain distance.

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF HORIZONTAL BUOYANT WALL JET

This article applies the realizable k - ω model to simulate the buoyant wall jet and gives the results of cling length, centerline trajectory and temperature dilutions at certain sections. The comparison between the numerical results and Sharp＇s experimental data indicates that the model is effective in estimating velocity distribution and temperature dilutions. The velocity profiles at the cental plane and z-plane both show a strong similarity at certain distance from the nozzle, and the distributions of velocity and temperature dilutions also exhibit a similarity along the axial direction at centerline in the near-field. Based on the results, the article gives the corresponding relationships between the distance and the dilutions of velocity and temperature, which is useful in predicting the behavior of the wall buoyant jet.

Numerical and experimental study of Boussinesq wall horizontal turbulent jet of fresh water in a static homogeneous environment of salt water

This paper investigates a numerical and experimental study about buoyant wall turbulent jet in a static homogeneous environment. A light fluid of fresh water is injected horizontally and tangentially to a plane wall into homogenous salt water ambient. This later is given with different values of salinity and the initial fractional density is small, so the applicability of the Boussinesq approximation is valid. Since the domain temperature is assumed to be constant, the density of the mixture is a function of the salt concentration only. Mathematical model is based on the finite volume method and reports on an application of standard k- ？ turbulence model for steady flow with densimetric Froude numbers of 1-75 and Reynolds numbers of 2 000-6 000. The basic features of the model are the conservation of mass, momentum and concentration. The boundaries of jet body, the radius and cling length are determined. It is found that the jet spreading and behavior depend on the ratio between initial buoyancy flux and momentum, i.e., initial Froude number, and on the influence of wall boundary which corresponds to Coanda effect. Laboratory experiments were conducted with photographic observations of jet trajectories and numerical results are described and compared with the experiments. A good agreement with numerical and experimental results has been achieved.

NUMERICAL STUDY OF FLOW AND DILUTION BEHAVIOR OF RADIAL WALL JET

The radial wall jet is a flow configuration that combines the radial jet and the wall jet. This article presents a simulation of the radial wall jet by applying the transition Shear-Stress Transport （ SST） model. Tanaka’s experimental data are used for validation. The computed velocity profiles agree well with the experimental ones. The distributions of the velocity on cross-sections show a similarity in the main region and the profiles are different with those of the free radial jet or the wall jet, because the presence of the wall limits the expansion of the jet. By introducing the equivalent nozzle width, the maximum velocity decays and the half-width distributions are normalized, respectively. In addition to compare the flow field with experiments, this paper also analyzes the dilution effect of radial wall jets in terms of the concentration distributions. The concentrations on the wall keep constant within a certain distance from the nozzle. And the concentration distributions also show a similarity in the main region. Both the decays of the maximum concentration and the distributions of the concentration half-width fall into a single curve, respectively. The dilution effect of radial wall jets is thus verified.

SCOUR OF FINE SEDIMENT BY A TURBULENT WALL JET

A total of 66 experiments were conducted to investigate the scour of fine finesediment by a turbulent wall jet. The independent variables studied were the flow velocity, the jet size, the grain sine, and the water temperature.Three Closely sized grades of bed material were used, and their median diameters were 0. 273mm, 0. 050mm, and 0. 030mm. The jet velocities varied from 0. 30m/s to 1. 10m/s for the coarse sediment (D =0. 273mm), and from 0. 30m/s to 0. 70m/s for the fine grades (D = 0. 050mm , and D= 0. 030mm). The jet size was set to 3. 18mm, 6, 35mm, and 9. 53mm for each grade size, and the water temperature varied from about 60 degrees Fahrenheit to about 85 degrees Fahrenheit.The independent variables were analyzed using dimensional analysis. Three dimentsionless Parameters, namely U(=pu2/ΔpgD), B(b/D), and G(=ΔpgD3/pv2), were obtained. These parameters enabled a close correlation of all experimental results. Other studies were also found to correlate well with these parameters.

Numerical modeling and spatial stability analysis of the wall jet flow of nanofluids with thermophoresis and brownian effects

The present work describes similarity solution to a general scheme for the wall jet flow of nanofluids,accounting both the similarity branches(say upper and lower),allowed with respect to the suction and moving wall conditions in the context of Glauert type e-jets.Before proceeding with this,a spatial stability analysis is performed to check the stability of the similarity modes.Results indicated that the upper similarity branch is possibly stable;whilst,the lower branch is not likely to reside in actual physics.The governing transport equations of mass and energy subject to a general two-phase modeling framework were transformed into similarity equations.The involved equations were then solved numerically employing the standard 4th order Runge-Kutta together with shooting technique.The influence of the involved parameters is shown graphically and in a detailed manner.In the last section,it is presented closed-form algebraic solution to the energy equation for the base fluids with a general convective boundary condition.

An experimental investigation on the trailing edge cooling of turbine blades

An experimental study was conducted to quantify the flow characteristics of the wall jets pertinent to trailing edge cooling of turbine blades.A high-resolution stereoscopic particle image velocimetry(PIV)system was used to conduct detailed flow field measurements to quantitatively visualize the evolution of the unsteady vortices and turbulent flow structures in the cooling wall jet streams and to quantify the dynamic mixing process between the cooling jet stream and the mainstream flows.The detailed flow field measurements were correlated with the adiabatic cooling effectiveness maps measured by using pressure sensitive paint(PSP)technique to elucidate underlying physics in order to explore/optimize design paradigms for improved cooling effectiveness to protect the critical portions of turbine blades from harsh environments.

NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF TURBULENT COUNTER-GRADIENT-TRANSPORT IN ASYMMETRIC FLOW WITH A JET

By using the Reynolds Stress Closure Model (RSM), turbulentCounter-Gradient-Transport (CGT) phenomenon was numerically investigated in asymmetric flow with ajet, and the computational results were compared with experimental data. The computational resultsshow that the negative turbulent energy production only appears at some certain stations in CGTregion, this fact indicates that the CGT phenomenon exists more widely than the negative turbulentenergy production; while the CGT region exists all along, it gradually shrinks in the favorablepressure gradient zone until the position of the wing central part is reached, where it vanishes,but it appears in the adverse pressure gradient region; in addition, the location in the flow whereuv = 0 switched sides, relative to where partial deriv U/partial deriv y = 0, from favorablepressure gradient to adverse pressure gradient. The pressure gradient takes an important effect onthe region of negative turbulent energy production and CGT.

Isothermal study of effusion cooling flows using a large eddy simulation approach

An isothermal numerical study of effusion cooling flow is conducted using a large eddy simulation(LES) approach.Two main types of cooling are considered,namely tangential film cooling and oblique patch effusion cooling.To represent tangential film cooling,a simplified model of a plane turbulent wall jet along a flat plate in quiescent surrounding fluid is considered.In contrast to a classic turbulent boundary layer flow,the plane turbulent wall jet possesses an outer free shear flow region,an inner near wall region and an interaction region,characterised by substantial levels of turbulent shear stress transport.These shear stress characteristics hold significant implications for RANS modelling,implications that also apply to more complex tangential film cooling flows with non-zero free stream velocities.The LES technique used in the current study provides a satisfactory overall prediction of the plane turbulent wall jet flow,including the initial transition region,and the characteristic separation of the zero turbulent shear stress and zero shear strain locations.Oblique effusion patch cooling is modelled using a staggered array of 12 rows of effusion holes,drilled at 30° to the flat plate surface.The effusion holes connect two channels separated by the flat plate.Specifically,these comprise of a channel representing the combustion chamber flow and a cooling air supply channel.A difference in pressure between the two channels forces air from the cooling supply side,through the effusion holes,and into the combustion chamber side.Air from successive effusion rows coalesces to form an aerodynamic film between the combustion chamber main flow and the flat plate.In practical applications,this film is used to separate the hot combustion gases from the combustion chamber liner.The numerical model is shown to be capable of accurately predicting the injection,penetration,downstream decay,and coalescence of the effusion jets.In addition,the numerical model captures entrainment of the combustion chamber mainstream flow towards the wall by the presence of the effusion jets.Two contra-rotating vortices,with axes of rotation along the stream-wise direction,are predicted as a result of this entrainment.The presence and characteristics of these vortices are in good agreement with previous published research.

Flow field generated by a dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuator in quiescent air at initiation stage

A single Dielectric Barrier Discharge(DBD) plasma actuator driven by Alternating Current(AC) power, capable of inducing a starting vortex and a wall jet in quiescent air, is suited for low-Reynolds-number flow control. However, the starting vortex and the wall jet are usually observed after the plasma actuator has been operated for dozens of and hundreds of cycles of the voltage, respectively. The detail of the induced flow field at the initiation stage of the plasma actuator has rarely been addressed. At the initiation stage, a thin jet that provides the impetus for the entrainment of the induced flow at the beginning of the plasma actuation is first observed by using a high-accuracy phase-lock Schlieren technique and a high-speed Particle Image Velocimetry(PIV) system. This is the initial form of the momentum transfer from the plasma to the fluid.Then, an arched type jet is created by the plasma actuator. In addition, the whole development process of the induced flow field from the starting point of the thin jet to the quasi-steady stage of wall jet is presented for providing a comprehensive understanding of the plasma actuator and proposing a relevant enhancement of the numerical simulation model.