Noncircular Jets Research Articles

Flow and acoustic characteristics of non-axisymmetric jets at subsonic conditions

Flow and acoustic behavior of two asymmetric, rectangular (AR = 4) and elliptic (AR = 2.5), jets are studied and compared to an equivalent area round jet. The jets are operated at a Mach number of 0.9 and temperature ratio of 1. Time-averaged flow field measurements are carried out using planar and stereoscopic particle image velocimetry. In addition, far-field microphone measurements are performed to compare jet acoustics. Mean flow field results demonstrate that for the given Mach number and aspect ratios, rectangular and elliptic jet properties are somewhat modified compared to the round jet. The elliptic jet exhibits properties that are intermediate between two geometric extremes. Moderately enhanced mixing in asymmetric jets as a result of weak streamwise vortices is evidenced by overall shorter potential core, faster centerline velocity decay, and higher shear layer growth rates. Centerline turbulence levels and transverse shear stress distribution also show enhanced fluctuations for non-circular jets. Compared to their major axis planes, relatively higher turbulence levels are measured in the minor axis planes for both rectangular and elliptic jets. Far-field acoustic measurements reveal the asymmetric nature of the sound field. Compared to the round jet, major axis orientation for asymmetric jets is observed to provide moderate acoustic benefit in the downstream direction. However, enhanced fluctuations in the minor axis plane result in a marginal noise augmentation at moderate to high frequencies in this plane for downstream polar angles.

Study of decay characteristics of rectangular and elliptical supersonic jets

Experiments were carried out to study the decay characteristics of non-circular supersonic jets issued from rectangular and elliptical nozzles, and results were compared with circular case. Numerical simulations and Schlieren image study were carried out to validate the experimental results obtained from total pressure data. The supersonic core lengths of the jets were found to be different for different exit shaped geometries and area ratio for those nozzles was same. To avoid the losses in divergent section, the shape of cross-section of throat was maintained same that of as the exit. The exit shape geometry played the important role to enhance the mixing of the jet with ambient air, without requiring secondary method to increase the mixing characteristics. The mixing with ambient air in case of non-circular jets was more intense when compared to that of circular jets, which resulted in reduction of supersonic core length. The behavior of supersonic core length had identical signature for both under-expanded and over-expanded operation. The supersonic core length was characterized by exit shape factor. In literature, the supersonic jet characterization and the related experimental correlation are available for optimum expansion conditions whereas for other expansion (under and over) conditions the experimental correlations are barely available. While investigating experimentally, a new empirical relation was obtained which was the improved form of earlier correlations for supersonic core length. The current results obtained from three different methods (total pressure data, schlieren image and numerical simulation) had shown the reasonable agreement with the experimentally obtained relation.

Experimental Analysis on Incompressible circular and noncircular Fluid Jet through Passive Control Method

Experimental Analysis on Incompressible circular and noncircular Fluid Jet through Passive Control Method

Axis switching in impinging premixed methane-air flame jets

Axis switching in non-circular tube burner flame jets is studied. Experimental data of heat flux is obtained for square and rectangular burners of different aspect ratios: 1, 1.55, 2.1 and 3.73. A three dimensional CFD simulation is carried out to explain the phenomenon of axis switching in premixed flame jets. From the CFD simulations it is observed that the vortices formed near the corner of the tube exit are responsible for the axis switching phenomenon. These vortices control the spreading (in a preferential manner) of the flame jet along the tube axis. This preferential spreading of the flame jet is responsible for switching of contours of heat flux on the impingement plate. Furthermore, for the rectangular burner, elliptical lobes of heat flux distribution on the impingement plate are observed and this is again attributed to vortex structures.

A novel method for calculating half velocity widths for turbulent jets

Summary Conventional method of defining half velocity widths is applicable only for axisymmetric jets. Hence, geometry based definition of half velocity width is used for non-circular jets. Usefulness of this method becomes less when there is no symmetry based on geometry. Hence, a new half velocity width is proposed based on equivalent area method. Newly proposed half velocity width is computed for a conventional circular jet and a non-circular jet. The comparison of half velocity widths obtained using conventional method and newly proposed method shows good agreement with each other for circular jet. Geometry based half width and equivalent area based half velocity width agree in the near field for the non-circular jet. Equivalent area based method is found as better representation of half velocity width for non-circular turbulent jets.

Characteristics of Sheet Formed by Collision of Two Elliptical Jets at Short Impact Distance

The research on characteristics of impinging jet has a long history and focuses mainly on the circular jets, whereas the impingement of noncircular jets, such as elliptical jets, receives much less attention. This paper investigated liquid sheet resulting from the oblique collision of two elliptical jets at short impact distance. The elliptical liquid jets contract and collide obliquely at impact point, forming a sheet in the form of a leaf bounded by a thicker rim. An improved theoretical model, taking jet contraction into account, for two elliptical impinging jets is established. The sheet features are obtained by combining the conservation equations between the liquid jet and sheet with the force balance equations of the sheet rim. The calculated sheet shapes are compared with the experiments, and the results show good agreement. The experimental results also indicate that the liquid sheet formed by elliptical jets tends to be larger and more unstable than that formed by circular jets. Based on the model, the effects of axial ratio and impact distance on the sheet characteristics, such as sheet shape and thickness, are also studied.

主流と干渉するシンセティックジェットにおける吹出し口形状の影響

A Synthetic jet device is a tool for generating a jet, and a useful tool for active flow control. Synthetic Jet actuators are low operating power, zero-net-mass-flux and very compact devices. Therefore, a synthetic jet is expected as a new method of boundary layer control. The orifice shape is an important parameter, which have an effect for boundary layer control. However, the effect of non-circular synthetic jets for boundary layer control is unknown. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of orifice shape for boundary layer control. In this experiment, circular orifice and two rectangular orifices were used. For the rectangular orifices with long side set in the spanwise direction, the boundary layer mixing is promoted and makes effective the separation control.

Influence of jet temperature and nozzle shape on the heat transfer distribution between a smooth plate and impinging air jets

Experiments are performed to study the effects of nozzle shape, jet temperature and nozzle to distance (z/de) on heat transfer distribution due to impingement of air jet on a smooth flat plate. Thin metal foil technique is employed in this study for measuring local wall temperature. Influence of jet temperature (70–175 °C) on local heat transfer and effectiveness is studied for different Reynolds numbers (5000–23,000) and jet to plate distances (1–10) for circular jets. Influence of nozzle shape (circular, square and triangular) on local heat transfer distribution and effectiveness is studied for Reynolds number of 10,000 and 23,000 at different jet to plate distances. Reynolds number is calculated on the basis of equivalent diameter (10 mm). Nusselt number measured based on equivalent diameter is the highest for a circular nozzle in comparison with square and triangular nozzles. The effect of jet temperature on heat transfer is found marginal and axis switching is observed for non-circular jets. The axis switching for triangular and square nozzles mechanism is governed by ωx dynamics.

Numerical Study of Mixing Flow Regimes Generated by Different Coaxial Jet Geometries

A computational investigation of turbulent mixing of free two air-air coaxial jets with equal densities, annular to core area ratio of 3.5 and velocity ratio of 0.5 is carried out. The flow field is considered incompressible, steady, asymmetric and turbulent. The inner and outer Reynolds numbers, based on mass averaged velocity and equivalent diameters are 8 × 104 and 7.5 × 104. Mixing flow characteristics of two different non-circular coaxial jets are obtained and compared with traditional circular coaxial jet within a relatively short length of X/Di =30. Shape and thickness of the separating wall depend on the geometry of the two coaxial jet; to maintain the AR equal to 3.5. Mixing of free jets is effective in generating the turbulence that improves the combustion and premixed flame burners performance. The simulation is performed using a finite volume scheme and a two-equation (KــــƐ) turbulence model. Results show that velocity decay along the centerline for non-circular coaxial jet is lower than that of circular coaxial jet. Also, inner potential core of non-circular cases is greater than that of circular one. In addition, the reattachment point in case of non-circular coaxial jet is reached after that of circular coaxial jet.

Liquid jet breakup for non-circular orifices under low pressures

This study uses a high-speed visualization technique to investigate the breakup process and flow behavior of low pressure water jets issued from non-circular orifices including square, triangular, and rectangular shapes. These orifices have approximately the same sectional areas. Stability curve and Ohnesorge chart are employed to make a comparison with circular jets discharged from a circular orifice of the same sectional area. The analysis is carried out for gauge pressures varying from 0.1psi to 70psi with small pressure steps corresponding to a range from 0.7kPa to 482.6kPa in metric units. Axis-switching phenomenon is observed and analyzed through calculating the axis-switching wavelength and oscillation frequency for rectangular jets. It is found that results for circular jets agreed well with classic theory. Non-circular jets demonstrate enhanced instabilities as a whole compared to circular jets. The different behaviors of non-circular jets are reasonably explained by Rayleigh’s oscillation theory. Axis-switching and aspect-ratio effect in rectangular jets is found to slow down the increase of breakup-length in the Rayleigh breakup regime. Square and triangular jets are more susceptible to wind effects and they are more unstable especially at higher pressure conditions. This can be concluded from the shorter breakup-length and narrower transitional region from the Rayleigh regime to the wind-induced regime as compared to the circular and rectangular jets. Axis-switching wavelength of the rectangular jets is found to increase linearly with increasing jet velocity and oscillation frequency decreases correspondingly.

Mixing of a non-circular jet into a counterflow

An elliptic jet and a square jet flowing into a counterflow with different jet-to-current velocity ratios are investigated by using realizable k-ɛ model. Some computed mean velocity and scalar features agree reasonably well with experimental measurements, and more features are obtained by analyzing the computed results. After fluid issues from a nozzle, it entrains ambient fluid, and its velocity and concentration on the centerline decay with the distance downstream from the potential core (l0). The decay ratio increases with the decreasing jet-to-current velocity ratio α. For an elliptic jet, the evolution of the excess velocity half-width b and the concentration half-width bc merely remains constant near the jet exit on major-axis plane while they increase linearly on the minor-axis plane. However, the half-widths on the major-axis and minor-axis plane become proportional to the axial distance downstream after equaling each other. For a square jet, b and bc increase linearly with the distance downstream from the jet exit, but the spread ratio is larger on the middle plane than that on the diagonal plane before they equal each other. The radial extent of the dividing streamline rs or the mixing boundary rsc increases linearly downstream, and decreases exponentially after reaching a peak at xb. The ratio on the minor-axis plane is larger than that on the major-axis plane for an elliptic jet. The characteristics are the same for the square jet. b, bc, rs, and rsc on two corresponding planes become equal to each other more rapidly for the square jet than for the elliptic jet, because the sharp corner of the square nozzle induces secondary structures that are more intense. The distributions of the excess axial velocity and scalar concentration exhibit self-similarity for either the elliptic jet or square jet in the region of l0 < x < xb. On the cross section, four counter-rotating pairs of vortices, which enhance the entrainment between the jet and counterflow, form at the four corners of the square jet or at the two ends of the major-axis plane of the elliptic jet. The recirculation pattern formed by these axial vortices is more complex for the square jet than that for the elliptic jet. The turbulent kinetic energy k have large value in the region near the jet exit and stagnation point. The maximum value of k for the square jet is larger than that of the elliptic jet near the jet exit. This results in the square jet mixing more strongly than the elliptic jet.

Effect of noncircular orifice plates on the near flow field of turbulent free jets

In this paper, we experimentally investigate the near-field flow characteristics of turbulent free jets respectively issued from circular, triangular, diamond, rectangular, and notched-rectangular orifice plates into air surroundings. All the orifice plates have identical opening areas or equivalent diameters (De) and their aspect ratios (AR) range from 1 to 6.5. Planar particle image velocimetry (PIV) is used to measure the velocity field at the same Reynolds number of Re = 5 × 104, where Re = UeDe/v with Ue being the exit bulk velocity and v the kinematic viscosity of fluid. The mean and turbulent velocity fields of all the five jets are compared in detail. Results show that the noncircular jets can enhance the entrainment rate, reflected by the higher acceleration rates of mean velocity decay and spread, shorten the length of the unmixed core, expedite the increase of turbulent intensity compared with the circular counterpart shortened unmixed core, and increase turbulent intensity comparing to the circular counterpart. Among the five jets, the rectangular jet (AR = 6.5) produces the greatest decay rate of the near-field mean velocity, postpones the position at which the `axis-switching' phenomenon occurs. This supports that axis switching phenomenon strongly depends on jet initial conditions. In addition, the hump in the centerline variation of the turbulence intensity is observed in the rectangular and triangular jets, but not in the circular jet, nor in diamond jet nor in notched-rectangular jet.

Mixing Characteristics of Elliptical and Rectangular Subsonic Jets with Swirling Co-flow

AbstractThis paper presents a computational analysis of effects of swirling co-flow and non-circular subsonic compressible inner jets on centerline velocity decay, mass entrainment and jet spreading rate. Three different exit shapes of elliptical, rectangular and circular inner jets were compared for three different co-flow conditions such as no co-flow, straight co-flow and swirling co-flow. Co-flow is issuing from a circular annular duct. Swirling co-flow is created in the co-flow duct by introducing a swirler with stationary angular vanes of 50° oblique to the jet axis. Reynolds number of inner jet is calculated based on its equivalent diameter as 200342. It is found that the swirling co-flow has strong influence on the boundary condition of inner jet and alters the major features of the jet such as jet potential core length, centerline velocity decay rate and jet spread rate. Streamwise corner vortices of different jet conditions have been captured using velocity vector plot to show the effect of swirling co-flow on the jet flow field. Swirling co-flow with elliptical inner jet exhibits higher velocity decay rate and jet spreading rate than the equivalent area circular and rectangular jet.

Modification of vortex dynamics and transport properties of transitional axisymmetric jets using zero-net-mass-flux actuation

We study the near field of a zero-net-mass-flux (ZNMF) actuated round jet using direct numerical simulations. The Reynolds number of the jet ReD = 2000 and three ZNMF actuators are used, evenly distributed over a circle, and directed towards the main jet. The actuators are triggered in phase, and have a relatively low momentum coefficient of Cμ = 0.0049 each. We study four different control frequencies with Strouhal numbers ranging from StD = 0.165 to StD = 1.32; next to that, also two uncontrolled baseline cases are included in the study. We find that this type of ZNMF actuation leads to strong deformations of the near-field jet region that are very similar to those observed for non-circular jets. At the end of the jet's potential core (x/D = 5), the jet-column cross section is deformed into a hexagram-like geometry that results from strong modifications of the vortex structures. Two mechanisms lead to these modifications, i.e., (i) self-deformation of the jet's primary vortex rings started by distortions in their azimuthal curvature by the actuation, and (ii) production of side jets by the development and subsequent detachment of secondary streamwise vortex pairs. Further downstream (x/D = 10), the jet transforms into a triangular pattern, as the sharp corner regions of the hexagram entrain fluid and spread. We further investigate the global characteristics of the actuated jets. In particular when using the jet preferred frequency, i.e., StD = 0.33, parameters such as entrainment, centerline decay rate, and mean turbulent kinetic energy are significantly increased. Furthermore, high frequency actuation, i.e., StD = 1.32, is found to suppress the mechanisms leading to large scale structure growth and turbulent kinetic energy production. The simulations further include a passive scalar equation, and passive scalar mixing is also quantified and visualized.

Influence of the Shape of the Orifice on the Local Heat Transfer Distribution of a Flat Plate Impinged by Under-Expanded Sonic Jets

Experiments are carried out for the circular, square, and equilateral triangular orifices of the same contraction ratio in order to explore the heat transfer characteristics for nozzle pressure ratios of 2.36, 3.04, 3.72, 4.4, and 5.08 at z/d = 2, 4, 6, and 8. The presence of vena contracta and shock cells and its locations are estimated from the impact pressure distribution along the axial direction. The pressure drop during the initial expansion is minimal for the equilateral triangular orifice. However, this pressure drop is comparable for the square and circular orifices. The heat transfer characteristics of the circular orifice are nearly axisymmetric, but that for non-circular jets are asymmetric, and the three dimensional effects are clearly observed. This is inferred through the spatial gradients of the Nusselt number and adiabatic wall temperature distributions. The linear correlations for the average Nusselt number are proposed for the circular, square, and equilateral triangular orifices.

Axis-switching of a micro-jet

In this study, it is shown that free microjets can undergo complex transitions similar to large-scale free jets despite relatively low Reynolds numbers. Using an original experimental method allowing for the 3D reconstruction of the instantaneous spatial organization of the microjet, the axis-switching of a micro-jet is observed for the first time. This is the first experimental evidence of such complex phenomena for free micro-jets. Combining these experimental results with Direct Numerical Simulations it is shown that the mechanism responsible for the axis-switching is the deformation of a micro-vortex ring due to induction by the corner vortices, as it occurs in large scale non-circular jets.

Breakup of liquid jets from non-circular orifices

The purpose of this investigation is to study the effect of the orifice geometry on liquid breakup. In order to develop a better understanding of the liquid jet breakup, investigations were carried out in two steps—study of low-pressure liquid jet breakup and high-pressure fuel atomization. This paper presents the experimental investigations conducted to study the flow behavior of low-pressure water jets emanating from orifices with non-circular geometries, including rectangular, square, and triangular shapes and draws a comparison with the flow behavior of circular jets. The orifices had approximately same cross-sectional areas and were machined by electro-discharge machining process in stainless steel discs. The liquid jets were discharged in the vertical direction in atmospheric air at room temperature and pressure conditions. The analysis was carried out for gage pressures varying from 0 to 1,000 psi (absolute pressures from 0.10 to 6.99 MPa). The flow behavior was analyzed using high-speed visualization techniques. To draw a comparison between flow behavior from circular and non-circular orifices, jet breakup length and width were measured. The flow characteristics were analyzed from different directions, including looking at the flow from the straight edges of the orifices as well as their sharp corners. The non-circular geometric jets demonstrated enhanced instability as compared to the circular jets. This has been attributed to the axis-switching phenomenon exhibited by them. As a result, the non-circular jets yielded shorter breakup lengths as compared to the circular jets. In order to demonstrate the presence of axis-switching phenomenon in square and triangular jets, the jet widths were plotted along the axial direction. This technique clearly demonstrated the axis switching occurring in square and triangular jets, which was not clearly visible unlike the case of rectangular jets. To conclude, non-circular geometry induces greater instabilities in the liquid jets, thereby leading to faster disintegration. Thus, non-circular orifice geometries can provide a cheaper solution of improving liquid breakup and thus may enhance fuel atomization as compared to the precise manufacturing techniques of drilling smaller orifices or using costly elevated fuel injection pressure systems.

NOISE SOURCE LOCATION OF UNDEREXPANDED NONCIRCULAR SLOT JETS

It is generally understood that the non-circular jets exhibit better mixing enhancement and noise suppression properties compared to circular jet. The present paper is on the experimental investigation of near acoustic field and noise source location of non-circular underexpanded jets and comparison with circular jet. Square, triangular, rectangular slot jets are considered in this work. The near field overall sound pressure level contours obtained along transverse plane and spanwise plane of non-circular jets and compared with circular jet for nozzle pressure ratio R at 4 and 5 which is analyzed to get noise source location for various jets. The effect of geometry in acoustic field in near field is highlighted in this paper.

Turbulent Mixing Noise from Underexpanded Non-circular Slot Jets

Turbulent Mixing Noise from Underexpanded Non-circular Slot Jets

An experimental study on the near flow field characteristics of non-circular jets

Subsonic turbulent free jet, issuing from a lobed contoured nozzle in to quiescent air is investigated experimentally. Results are compared with a cir ular jet from a nozzle of the same exit area and same contraction profile. Mean flow characteristics, turbulence intensities and Reynolds shear stresses in the near field region are investigated by using Hot-wire Anemometry. An overall decrease in turbulence intensities and enhanced flow entrainment in the near field of lobed nozzle are observed.