Liquid sheet instability in the presence of acoustic forcing

Author(s):  
Aditya Sanjay Mulmule ◽  
Mahesh Tirumkudulu ◽  
N Ananthkrishnan ◽  
K Ramamurthy
2019 ◽  
Vol 880 ◽  
pp. 653-683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandip Dighe ◽  
Hrishikesh Gadgil

Atomization of a smooth laminar liquid sheet produced by the oblique impingement of two liquid jets and subjected to transverse acoustic forcing in quiescent ambient is investigated. The acoustic forcing perturbs the liquid sheet perpendicular to its plane, thereby setting up a train of sinuous waves propagating radially outwards from the impingement point. These sheet undulations grow as the wave speed decreases towards the edge of the sheet and the sheet characteristics, like intact length and mean drop size, reduce drastically as compared to the natural breakup. Our observations show that the effect of the acoustic field is perceptible over a continuous range of forcing frequencies. Beyond a certain forcing frequency, called the cutoff frequency, the effect of the external acoustic field ceases. The cutoff frequency is found to be an increasing function of the Weber number. Our measurements of the characteristics of spatially amplifying sinuous waves show that the instabilities responsible for the natural sheet breakup augment in the presence of external forcing. Combining the experimental observations and measurements, we conclude that the linear theory of aerodynamic interaction (Squire’s theory) (Squire, Brit. J. Appl. Phys., vol. 4 (6), 1953, pp. 167–169) predicts the important features of this phenomenon reasonably well.


2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 022101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aditya S. Mulmule ◽  
Mahesh S. Tirumkudulu ◽  
K. Ramamurthi

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Han-Yu Deng ◽  
Feng Feng ◽  
Xiao-Song Wu

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-191
Author(s):  
Mohamed F. El-Sayed ◽  
M. H. M. Moussa ◽  
Ahmed A. A. Hassan ◽  
N. M. Hafez

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 387-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. S. Kang ◽  
Y. B. Shen ◽  
D. Poulikakos
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Author(s):  
Vincent Kather ◽  
Finn Lückoff ◽  
Christian O. Paschereit ◽  
Kilian Oberleithner

The generation and turbulent transport of temporal equivalence ratio fluctuations in a swirl combustor are experimentally investigated and compared to a one-dimensional transport model. These fluctuations are generated by acoustic perturbations at the fuel injector and play a crucial role in the feedback loop leading to thermoacoustic instabilities. The focus of this investigation lies on the interplay between fuel fluctuations and coherent vortical structures that are both affected by the acoustic forcing. To this end, optical diagnostics are applied inside the mixing duct and in the combustion chamber, housing a turbulent swirl flame. The flame was acoustically perturbed to obtain phase-averaged spatially resolved flow and equivalence ratio fluctuations, which allow the determination of flux-based local and global mixing transfer functions. Measurements show that the mode-conversion model that predicts the generation of equivalence ratio fluctuations at the injector holds for linear acoustic forcing amplitudes, but it fails for non-linear amplitudes. The global (radially integrated) transport of fuel fluctuations from the injector to the flame is reasonably well approximated by a one-dimensional transport model with an effective diffusivity that accounts for turbulent diffusion and dispersion. This approach however, fails to recover critical details of the mixing transfer function, which is caused by non-local interaction of flow and fuel fluctuations. This effect becomes even more pronounced for non-linear forcing amplitudes where strong coherent fluctuations induce a non-trivial frequency dependence of the mixing process. The mechanisms resolved in this study suggest that non-local interference of fuel fluctuations and coherent flow fluctuations is significant for the transport of global equivalence ratio fluctuations at linear acoustic amplitudes and crucial for non-linear amplitudes. To improve future predictions and facilitate a satisfactory modelling, a non-local, two-dimensional approach is necessary.


2009 ◽  
Vol 156 (12) ◽  
pp. 2252-2263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Munki Kim ◽  
Youngil Choi ◽  
Jeongseog Oh ◽  
Youngbin Yoon

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