Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
NPC-2013-Paper no.12011
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Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Department of Aerospace Engineering
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore - 560012
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Corresponding author: anubhav@mecheng.iisc.ernet.in
Introduction
Abstract
Jet in a cross flow is a
The present study focuses common type of configuration
on the jet break-up and spray used in many gas turbine
formation of a jet in a engine combustors, ramjets,
cross-flow configuration scramjets and afterburners.
under atmospheric conditions. The design of this
A water jet is subjected to configuration depends on the
air cross flow and the understanding of the spray
resulting spray structure is formation and droplet
studied. The cross flow air dispersion in the combustor.
velocity and jet momentum There is significant work
both are varied to obtain a reported on the cross flow
set of momentum ratios. configuration, both
Different regimes of breakup experimental and numerical,
are observed. Bag breakup is however, there seems to be
quantified in terms of bag lack of consensus on various
breakup frequency and is key parameters and their role
found to increase with both Q in jet breakup and droplets
and We. The penetration dispersion as is evident by
length of water jet is found the vast number of
to increase with Q. High correlations offered by
speed images have shown various research groups for
details about the various predicting spray trajectory
stages of bag breakup, such and penetration 1-4.
as inception, growth and Mashayek and Ashgriz5 have
rupture. presented an informative
review of various previous
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Bag
Inception
Bag
Growth
Bag Rupture
Rim
Rupture
Column
Waves
Bag
Breakup
Bag
Breakup