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Model for the initiation of atomization in a high-speed laminar liquid jet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2014

Akira Umemura
Akira Umemura*
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace Engineering, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan
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†Email address for correspondence: akira@nuae.nagoya-u.ac.jp
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Abstract

A laminar water jet issuing at high speed from a short circular nozzle into air exhibits various instability features at different distances from the nozzle exit. Near the exit, the effects of gaseous friction and pressure are relatively weak. Deformation of the jet surface in this region is mainly due to the instability of a thin liquid shear layer flow, which relaxes from the velocity profile produced by the nozzle wall. In this paper, a model for this type of instability based on linear stability analysis is investigated to describe the process initiating the formation of liquid ligaments disintegrating into fine droplets near the nozzle exit. The modelling comprises identifying unstable waves excitable in the liquid shear layer and exploring a self-destabilizing mechanism by which unstable waves responsible for the formation of liquid ligaments are naturally reproduced from the upstream-propagating capillary waves produced by the growth of the unstable waves themselves. An expression for the location of ligament formation onset is derived that can be compared with experiments. The model also explains changes in jet instability features away from the nozzle exit and for very short nozzles.

JFM classification

Drops and Bubbles: Aerosols/atomization Waves/Free-surface Flows: Capillary waves Wakes/Jets: Wakes/Jets
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 757 , 25 October 2014 , pp. 665 - 700
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© 2014 Cambridge University Press 

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