Abstract

With the vigorous progress of nuclear industry under marine environment, the ocean motion will exacerbate the pressure oscillation phenomenon caused by the change of the steam-liquid interface during the jet, causing great harm and challenges to the security and steady operation of device related to steam submerged jets. Therefore, the effects of heave motion on the steam bubble morphology and pressure oscillation phenomenon of jets with vertically upward low mass fluxes were experimentally investigated. The experimental results show that when the heave motion is upward, the steam bubble will be stretched obviously in the necking and detachment stages; while when the heave motion is downward, the steam bubble will accumulate at the nozzle outlet during the growth initial stage. Compared with the land environment, the heave motion increases the dominant frequency and pressure pulses average amplitude, and the dominant frequency and pressure pulses average amplitude have a positive correlation with the heave amplitude and a negative correlation with the heave period. In addition, there is a positive correlation between the Strouhal number and the heave maximum acceleration amplitude. An experimental correlation is proposed to predict the dominant frequency in heave motion, and the error is basically within ±30%.

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