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Jian Gan1, Kang Zhang1, Deming Wang1
1Key Laboratory of Gas and Fire Control for Coal Mines, School of Safety Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China.
Abstract:
The dynamic cavitation characteristics of normal-temperature water flowing through a transparent jet pump under different cavitation conditions were experimentally studied by adjusting the pressure ratio. The common results are presented at different pressure ratios, including the temporal and spatial changes of the pressure and noise, together with the visual observation of the cavitation unsteady behaviors using a high-speed camera. The analyses on the measured data and images reveal that the cavitation cloud is generated by periodic oscillations of the jet traveling pressure wave and the bubble traveling pressure wave. The oscillation of the two kinds of interface waves is caused by the collapse of the bubbles, which is the main mechanism of the bubble cloud shedding. As the pressure ratio increases, the maximum length of the jet cloud and bubble cloud linearly decreases, while their oscillation frequency increases gradually. Combined with the cavitation-cloud visualization data and noise frequency analysis, it is proposed that the strong impact between the jet traveling pressure wave and the bubble traveling pressure wave is the main cause of noise. Specially, the acoustic pressure reaches the maximum when the oscillation frequency of the jet traveling pressure wave is the same as that of the bubble traveling pressure wave. Also, the jet traveling pressure wave has a great influence on the migration of bubbles in the cavity. The results can provide guidance for the optimal operating condition in cavitation applications such as jet aerator and quantitative addition.
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