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Measurement of the growth of a turbulent mercury jet in a coaxial magnetic field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

Miklos Sajben  and
James A. Fay
Miklos Sajben
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Present address: California Institute of Technology.
James A. Fay
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Abstract

Using a hot-wire system developed for this purpose, measurements of the velocity were made in a circular liquid-mercury jet issuing into a low-speed secondary flow and subject to a uniform axial magnetic field. The Reynolds number of the jet was about 10,000 while the magnetic interaction parameter varied from zero to slightly over one. The jet was strongly turbulent under all conditions investigated. The radial distribution of the mean and fluctuating component of the meridional velocity was measured at four axial stations located between 2 and 34 diameters from the nozzle exit. The results indicate that the rate of spreading of the jet is decreased, that the shape of the velocity profile changes and that the turbulent intensity decreases with increasing magnetic-field strength. The high-frequency components of the fluctuations in the second flow seem to be damped more strongly than fluctuations at low frequencies, while the reverse is observed within the core of the jet.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , 11 January 1967 , pp. 81 - 96
Copyright
© 1967 Cambridge University Press

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