Abstract
The high-speed liquid-jet velocity achieved using an injector strongly depends on the piston motion, physical property of the liquid, and container shape of the injector. Herein, we investigate the liquid ejection mechanism and a technique for estimating the ejection velocity of a high-speed liquid jet using a pyro jet injector (PJI). We apply a two-dimensional numerical simulation with an axisymmetric approximation using the commercial software ANSYS/FLUENT. To gather the input data applied during the numerical simulation, the piston motion is captured with a high-speed CMOS camera, and the velocity of the piston is measured using motion tracking software. To reproduce the piston motion during the numerical simulation, the boundary-fitted coordinates and a moving boundary method are employed. In addition, we propose a fluid dynamic model (FDM) for estimating the high-speed liquid-jet ejection velocity based on the piston velocity. Using the FDM, we consider the liquid density variation but neglect the effects of the liquid viscosity on the liquid ejection. Our results indicate that the liquid-jet ejection velocity estimated by the FDM corresponds to that predicted by ANSYS/FLUENT for several different ignition-powder weights. This clearly shows that a high-speed liquid-jet ejection velocity can be estimated using the presented FDM when considering the variation in liquid density but neglecting the liquid viscosity. In addition, some characteristics of the presented PJI are observed, namely, (1) a very rapid piston displacement within 0.1 ms after a powder explosion, (2) piston vibration only when a large amount of powder is used, and (3) a pulse jet flow with a temporal pulse width of 0.1 ms.
Highlights
High-speed water-jet techniques are extremely useful in broad industrial fields, for example, the cutting of metallic boards, wooden boards, concrete blocks, vegetables, and human organs1–3
The combustion chamber used an ignition powder (IP), by which no gas was generated during the combustion
To investigate the high-speed liquid-jet ejection mechanism and develop a high-precision model without a discretization scheme for estimating the jet ejection velocity, we propose the use of an fluid dynamic model (FDM) to estimate the velocity of the ejected liquid jet generated by the pyro jet injector (PJI)
Summary
High-speed water-jet techniques are extremely useful in broad industrial fields, for example, the cutting of metallic boards, wooden boards, concrete blocks, vegetables, and human organs. High-speed water-jet techniques are extremely useful in broad industrial fields, for example, the cutting of metallic boards, wooden boards, concrete blocks, vegetables, and human organs1–3 Such a high-speed water jet is generally produced by high-pressure gas, a piezo actuator, a metallic spring, or a falling or accelerated weight. The needs regarding the water-jet properties (e.g., the jet velocity, duration time, and diameter, and the liquid type) vary for each field. Because the jet velocity is quite high and the application fields vary, there are few studies investigating the universal mechanism of liquid jet ejection. The values of B and C are represented in the following equations:
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