Gas-phase flowrate effect on disintegrating cryogenic liquid-jets
- Author:
- Ingebo, Robert D.
- Published:
- JAN 1, 1989.
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- 1 electronic document
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- Summary:
- Two phase liquid and gaseous nitrogen flow in a pneumatic two fluid atomizer was investigated. Characteristic dropsize for cryogenic sprays were measured with a scattered light scanning instrument developed at NASA-Lewis. Tests were conducted primarily in the aerodynamic stripping regime of liquid jet atomization. At a sampling distance of bar-x=1.3 cm, the Sauter mean, D(sub 32), and volume median, D(sub v.5), drop diameters were measured and correlated with nitrogen gas flowrate, W(sub n), to give the following expressions: D sub 32 to the -1=210W(sub n) to the -1.33 and D(sub v.5) to the -1=150 W(sub n to the -1.33, where reciprocal diameters and gas flowrate are in cm (-1) and g/sec, respectively. The exponent 1.33 for nitrogrn gas flowrate, W(sub n), is the same as that predicted by atomization theory for liquid-jet breakup in high velocity gasflow. When the spray was sampled at axial distances of bar-x=2.5 and 4.5 cm downstream of the atomizer, the exponent decreased to 1.2 and 0.9, respectively. This was attributed to the loss of small droplets due to their rapid vaporization.
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- NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
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- Document ID: 19900001961.
Accession ID: 90N11277.
E-5071.
NAS 1.15:102357.
NASA-TM-102357.
International Congress on Fluid Mechanics; 2-4 Jan. 1990; Cairo; Egypt. - Terms of Use and Reproduction:
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