Linear instability analysis of a shear thinning gelled jet with yield stress in coaxial atomization
Yufan Wang1, Pingping Chai2, Feng Yao3
1National Energy Coal Gasification Technology Research and Development Center, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Coal Gasification, Engineering Research Center of Resource Utilization of Carbon-containing Waste with Carbon Neutrality, Ministry of Education, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China. zhaohui@ecust.edu.cn.
Abstract:
This study aims to experimentally and theoretically investigate the roles of a threaded nozzle and yield stress in the coaxial air blast atomization of a gelled jet by means of rheological tests and high-speed flow visualization techniques. Similar to the breakup types of Newtonian fluids, a gelled jet will gradually exhibit an oscillation mode, membrane-type breakup, fiber-type breakup and a superpulsating submode as the airflow velocity increases. The transition conditions for each type are determined and plotted in the dimensionless map of We-Oh. For the jet spray angle, the maximum occurs when We = 600 and is clearly enlarged by the gas-side thread in the nozzle. The numerical results of the linear stability analysis indicate that a smaller dominant unstable growth rate is acquired by swelling the yield stress, while the higher dominant unstable growth rate and truncated wavenumber appear as the rotational airflow is acquired through the gas-side threaded nozzle.
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