Orifice and impingement flow fields in confined jet impingement
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI (United States). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
The flow fields in the orifice and the confinement region of a normally impinging, axisymmetric, confined and submerged liquid jet were computationally investigated. Numerical predictions were made for orifice diameters of 3.18 and 6.35 mm at several orifice-to-target plate spacings, with turbulent jet Reynolds number ranging from 8,500 to 23,000. The commercial finite-volume code FLUENT was used to solve the flow fields using a modified {kappa}-{epsilon} model based on renormalization group theory. The predicted characteristics of the separation region at the entrance of the orifice agree with experiments in the literature. The pressure drop across the orifice was predicted to within 5% of proposed empirical correlations based on published experimental data. The computed flow patterns in the confinement region of the impinging jet were in good qualitative agreement with flow visualizations; however, a secondary recirculation zone observed in experiments was not predicted by the models.
- OSTI ID:
- 428140
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960815--; ISBN 0-7918-1506-4
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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