Effect of Nozzle Outlet Shape on Cavitation Behavior of Submerged High-Pressure Jet

Abstract

A submerged high-pressure water jet is usually accompanied by severe cavitation phenomenon. An organ pipe nozzle can greatly improve the cavitation performance of the jet, making use of the self-excited oscillation of the flow. In order to study the effect of organ pipe nozzles of different nozzle outlet shapes on cavitation behavior of submerged high-pressure jet, in this paper we build a high-pressure cavitation jet experiment system and carried out a high-speed photography experiment to study cavitation cloud characteristics of a high-pressure submerged jet. Two organ pipe nozzles with and without a whistle were compared. The dynamic characteristics of the cavitation cloud was extracted through the POD method, it was found that the result effectively reflect the dynamic characteristics of the cavitation jet. The reconstruction coefficients of mode-1 obtained by the POD can better reflect the periodic time-frequency characteristics of cavitation development. The effect of the nozzle outlet shape on the cavitation behavior of organ pipe nozzle was analyzed based on unsteady numerical simulation, and it was found that the jet generated by the nozzle with a divergent whistle had a larger vorticity in the shear layer near the outlet. Further, stronger small-scale vortex and much severe cavitation occurred from the nozzle with a divergent whistle.

Keywords

• high-pressure jet
• high-speed photography
• cavitation
• nozzle
• POD