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Force-momentum fields in a dual-jet flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

David R. Miller  and
Edward W. Comings
David R. Miller
Affiliation:
Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana
Edward W. Comings
Affiliation:
Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana
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Abstract

Measurements of mean velocity, mean flow direction, normal turbulent stress in the direction of flow, and mean static pressure are reported for the subsonic flow field generated by identical twin jets of air issuing from parallel slot nozzles in a common wall and mixing turbulently with ambient room air. At the low nozzle velocity employed (72ft./sec), the two-dimensional plano-symmetric flow was effectively incompressible. Since the end walls prevented interjet air entrainment from the surroundings, a region of highly convergent flow was formed near the nozzles. In this region, contour maps clearly reveal (1) the sub-atmospheric static pressure through that accounts for the jet convergence, (2) a free stagnation point on the plane of symmetry, (3) stable symmetrical contrarotary vortices which recycle air on the concave side of each converging jet, and (4) the super-atmospheric static pressure mound that redirects the merging jet streams in a common downstream direction. Comparisons are made between the development of the flow, in both the region of jet convergence and the region of combined jet flow, and that of the single-jet counterpart which was previously reported.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , February 1960 , pp. 237 - 256
Copyright
© 1960 Cambridge University Press

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