Influence of Self-excited Vibrating Cavity Structure on Droplet Diameter Characteristics of Twin-fluid Nozzle

It is a great challenge to find effective atomizing technology for reducing industrial pollution; the twin-fluid atomizing nozzle has drawn great attention in this field recently. Current studies on twin-fluid nozzles mainly focus on droplet breakup and single droplet characteristics. Research relating to the influences of structural parameters on the droplet diameter characteristics in the flow field is scarcely available. In this paper, the influence of a self-excited vibrating cavity structure on droplet diameter characteristics was investigated. Twin-fluid atomizing tests were performed by a self-built open atomizing test bench, which was based on a phase Doppler particle analyzer(PDPA). The atomizing flow field of the twin-fluid nozzle with a self-excited vibrating cavity and its absence were tested and analyzed. Then the atomizing flow field of the twin-fluid nozzle with different self-excited vibrating cavity structures was investigated.The experimental results show that the structural parameters of the self-excited vibrating cavity had a great effect on the breakup of large droplets. The Sauter mean diameter(SMD) increased with the increase of orifice diameter or orifice depth. Moreover, a smaller orifice diameter or orifice depth was beneficial to enhancing the turbulence around the outlet of nozzle and decreasing the SMD. The atomizing performance was better when the orifice diameter was2.0 mm or the orifice depth was 1.5 mm. Furthermore, the SMD increased first and then decreased with the increase of the distance between the nozzle outlet and self-excited vibrating cavity, and the SMD of more than half the atomizing flow field was under 35 μm when the distance was 5.0 mm. In addition, with the increase of axial and radial distance from the nozzle outlet, the SMD and arithmetic mean diameter(AMD) tend to increase. The research results provide some design parameters for the twin-fluid nozzle, and the experimental results could serve as a beneficial supplement to the twin-fluid nozzle study.

Experimental Investigation of fluid-structure interaction of composite hydrofoils in cavitating flow

This paper experimentally studies the cavitating fluid-structure interaction of composite hydrofoils with different ply angles.The synchronous measurement system with high-speed camera and for laser Doppler vibrometer(LDV),the feedback pressure regulation system,and the flow rate control system are established.The experimental results of the cavitation evolution show that,compared with the rigid hydrofoil,the composite hydrofoils with+45°ply angle and 0°ply angle accelerate the cavitation inception,and the composite hydrofoil with−45°ply angle delays the cavitation inception.At the same cavitation number,the cloud cavitation of the+45°laminated hydrofoil is the most severe,followed by that of the 0°laminated hydrofoil,and that of the−45°laminated hydrofoil is relatively weak and close to that of the rigid hydrofoil.The analyses of the structural vibration of the composite hydrofoils in different cavitation stages show that the three composite hydrofoils have no significant vibration at the incipient cavitation and the supercavitation,but relatively significant vibration is observed in the sheet and cloud cavitation.The vibration amplitude of the composite hydrofoil with+45°ply angle is the largest,followed by those of the−45°,0°laminated hydrofoils.In the sheet cavitation,the dominant frequencies of the structural vibration velocity of the+45°laminated hydrofoil and the−45°laminated hydrofoil are the first and second modal frequencies,but no explicit dominant frequency is observed for the 0°laminated hydrofoil.In the cloud cavitation,the dominant frequencies of the three composite hydrofoils mainly include the first modal frequency,the second modal frequency,and the cavity shedding frequency.