Experimental Characterization of Air Entrainment in Rectangular Free Falling Jets

Experimental study on contaminant entrainment in air distribution systems with free jets

experimental investigation of atomization of water jets in air streams

atomization is a process by which a volume of liquid is converted spray. this process includes the breakup of the liquid jet or the liquid sheet exiting the injector. this paper has experimentally investigated the models and mechanisms for the breakup of the liquid jet and the liquid sheet formed by the jets impingement in a still environment and in an environment with counter flow, coflow, and...

Air entrainment through free-surface cusps.

In many industrial processes, such as pouring a liquid or coating a rotating cylinder, air bubbles are entrapped inside the liquid. We propose that this is due to air being drawn into the narrow channel of a cusp singularity that generically forms on free surfaces. Since the width of the cusp is exponentially small in the driving strength, even the minute viscosity of air is enough to destroy t...

Effects of Upward Seepage on Depth of Scour Hole Downstream of Free Falling Jets Under Constant Tail Water Depth

rade control structures are used to control bed erosion in steep small rivers mostly in the mountains. Scour downstream of this structure can lead to failure. Over the past years, the effect of different variables on this phenomena have been studied, however the effect of upward seepage which is common due to head difference of the banks water table or water surface level between the upstream a...

An Experimental and Analytical Investigation of Rectangular Synthetic Jets

In this paper the flow field of a rectangular synthetic jet driven by a piezoelectric membrane issuing into a quiescent environment is studied. The similarities exhibited by synthetic and continuous turbulent jets lead to the hypothesis that a rectangular synthetic jet within a limited region downstream of the orifice be modeled using similarity analysis just as a continuous planar jet. Accordi...