Study on unsteady gas jet and wall impingement jet ? Comparison experimental results with numerical analysis by discrete vortex method

Abstract

Abstract Generally speaking, it is very difficult to observe the growing process of large scaled vortices in a transient gas jet. The vortices have great effect on the mechanism of mixture formation between the jet itself and the surroundings. The objective of the study presented here is the clarification of this mechanism in both cases of a free jet and a jet impinging on a flat wall by means of the flow visualization of 21) image taken by thin sheet of laser light in the experiments and the numerical analysis by the discrete vortex method. The mechanism of the vortex growth and the coherent structure of vortices entraining the surroundings are observed in the case of the free jet. In the wall impinging jet, the structure inside the jet is divided into four regions, that is, free jet region, impingement region, wall jet region and wall jet vortex region. The results of the numerical analysis agree qualitatively well with the experimental data.