Accession Number:

ADA434438

Title:

Structures of Angled Aerated-Liquid Jets in March 1.94 Supersonic Crossflow

Descriptive Note:

Master's thesis

Corporate Author:

AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSONAFB OH DEPT OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS

Personal Author(s):

• Dixon, Dion R.

Report Date:

2005-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

82.0

Abstract:

The structures of aerated-liquid jets injected into a supersonic crossflow have been studied experimentally. Aerated-liquid injectors with diameters of 0.020, 0.040 and 0.060 were flush mounted on the bottom plate of a supersonic wind tunnel to provide normal and angled injection. Free stream Mach number and temperature were held constant at 1.94 and 500 degrees F, respectively. Water at room temperature was used as the liquid injectant and nitrogen gas used as the aerating gas. Wide ranges of test conditions for injection angle circle minus, injector orifice diameter d0, jet-to-air momentum flux ratios q0, and gas-to-liquid ratios GLR, were studied. Injection angles were varied from 45 downstream to 90 normal to freestream. Jet-to-air momentum flux was varied from 1 to 15 of the free stream and gas-to-liquid ratios from 0 pure-liquid injection to 10. Shadowgraph and laser sheet illumination techniques were used for spray visualization while a phase Doppler Particle Analyzer PDPA was utilized to quantitatively measure droplet and spray plume properties. The data from all three methods were used to develop correlations for the droplet and spray plume properties for aerated-liquid jets using a linear fit of the base-10 logarithm coefficients. Correlations relating penetration height and spray plume width of the injected spray to the above listed parameters, as well as the normalized axial distance downstream of the injector, xd0, were formulated based on all three measurement techniques. Results indicate that a reasonable prediction of penetration height, spray plume cross sectional area, and local equivalence ratio can be obtained from PDPA data, while other visualization techniques tend to under-predict such quantities.

Descriptors:

• *MACH NUMBER
• *SUPERSONIC COMBUSTION
• *SUPERSONIC FLOW
• *LIQUID JETS
• METHODOLOGY
• PREDICTIONS
• THESES
• NITROGEN
• ROOM TEMPERATURE
• PENETRATION
• PLUMES
• DOPPLER SYSTEMS
• INJECTORS
• FREE STREAM
• GAS FLOW
• CROSS FLOW
• ORIFICES

Subject Categories:

• Fluid Mechanics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE