WANG Chao, SHI Honghui, WANG Jianfeng. Transient characteristics of compressible gas jet in liquid[J]. CIESC Journal, 2016, (6): 2291-2299.DOI: 10.11949/j.issn.0438-1157.20151874.
A device of submerged supersonic gas jet is configured and a two-dimensional axis-symmetric model of two-phase flow is established via volume of fluid (VOF) method. The flow field of the submerged supersonic gas jet is experimentally visualized using a photographic technique which allows simultaneous analysis of the jet interface to investigate the behavior of gas jets injected into water ambient. The detailed internal structure of the flow field is obtained by numerical technique via finite volume method (FVM). The results show that the flow field from the nozzle exit to the far away field of downstream includes three different characteristic regions: the jet region
the transition region and the plume region. The gravity can be ignored in jet region. And the bulge and back-attack phenomena lead to the heavy oscillation flow pattern. Gas-liquid interface instabilities cause jet necking phenomena which leads expand or pinch-off of the gas jet and subsequent bulge and back-attack phenomena. A small scale of the necking results in the bulge phenomenon at upstream. A slightly larger scale of the necking causes the back-attack phenomenon. A large scale of necking even leads to the jet pinch-off phenomenon and then jet rebuilding.