Interaction of Annular Air Jet with a Non‐Evaporating Liquid Spray

Abstract

AbstractThe effects of a concentric annular air jet on the structure of a liquid spray have been examined under isothermal conditions using Phase Doppler interferometry, and flow visualization techniques. Local measurements of drop size, velocity, volume flux, and number density have been made simultaneously and non‐intrusively. The results show that the initial spray cone widens substantially with increasing air flow while the overall spray envelope remains essentially the same. The air jet creates a narrow high mass flux region of small droplets in the core of the spray, surrounded by a nearly uniform flux region extending almost to the boundary of the spray. Line averaged mean diameters are found to be slightly smaller, indicating that the annular air jet plays a role improving the atomization process as well.