The interaction between multiple high pressure combustion gas jets and water in a water-filled vessel

Abstract

A static experimental system based on the background of the underwater gun firing process is designed to simulate the expansion of conical-distributed multiple gas jets in a water-filled vessel. The gas is generated from the gunpowder combustion and injected into water through five orifices on a mock bullet. A high-speed digital camera is taken in experiment to record such expansion and the Euler-Euler multiphase model is utilized in simulation to describe the gas-liquid flow. Results show that the contraction of Taylor cavity in liquid and the gas-liquid entrainment both affect the shock structure in gas. The expansion zone near the orifice shrinks and the gas speed downs when the central gas jet has a contraction, but lateral jets have no contractions due to the obstruction from the wall. The contraction has a greater impact on the shock structure than the gas-liquid entrainment and occurs earlier under a higher injection pressure.