Self-oscillatory regimes of cavitation interaction between counter-streaming fluid flows
Abstract
The effects of unsteady cavitation interaction between a coaxial system of a continuous water jet and a surrounding annular gas jet and a counter-streaming water flow in a cylindrical tube is investigated both experimentally and numerically. The distinctive features of the mechanism of the formation of regular self-oscillatory interaction regimes and their salient features are studied. The dependence of the mean self-oscillation frequency on the ratio of the counter-streaming water flows is determined at different gas jet flow rates. The Froude number effect on the self-oscillation frequency is analyzed. The dependence of the maximum value of the longitudinal displacement of the nose of a developed oscillating cavity penetrating into the counter stream and of the displacement amplitude on the flow rate of the supplied gas is determined. The idea on the pressure distribution in the cavity in different stages of flow development is obtained. The nature of the dependence of the self-oscillation frequency on the degree of tube flow blockage by the cavity is established.
- Publication:
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Fluid Dynamics
- Pub Date:
- August 2011
- DOI:
- 10.1134/S0015462811040090
- Bibcode:
- 2011FlDy...46..596K
- Keywords:
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- self-oscillations;
- jet cavitator;
- counter-streaming flows