THERMAL SCIENCE
International Scientific Journal
CROSS AND CLOVER SHAPED ORIFICE JETS ANALYSIS AT LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER
ABSTRACT
The jet coming from a cross-shaped orifice with an open center has been shown in the past, to provide substantial increase in the near field convective transport-mixing, in comparison to a classical round orifice jet. Detailed information has been reported in previous works on the role played in the jet mixing enhancement by the crow of vortices composed of counter-rotating pairs of secondary streamwise structures which are developing in orifice’s troughs. A trough in the cross-shaped jet generates a local shear like the one generated by a triangular tab in a square jet. In the present study we are interested by the modification of local shears in the troughs of the cross-shaped jet, when orifice geometry is modified, such as the center of the orifice becomes closed, leading to a clover-shaped orifice. The general motivation is to understand the effect of using a set of combination of longitudinal structures, themselves produced by the superposition of local shear regions, in mixing performance of a cross jet. It is shown that lower entrainment rates in the clover jet is a results of a additional internal crown of vortices which opposes the external one due to inner shears generated by closing the center of the orifice.
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PAPER SUBMITTED: 2013-07-24
PAPER REVISED: 2013-11-28
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2013-12-02
PUBLISHED ONLINE: 2013-12-22
THERMAL SCIENCE YEAR
2015, VOLUME
19, ISSUE
Issue 6, PAGES [2139 - 2150]
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