Date of Award
2008
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.Sc.
Department
Mechanical, Automotive, and Materials Engineering
Keywords
Engineering, Industrial.
Supervisor
Balachandar, Ramaswami (Civil & Environmental Engineering), Barron, Ronald (Mathematics & Statistics)
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
High speed water jets in air are typically used in industrial cleaning operations. Vigorous interaction between the jet and the surrounding air brings about an exchange of mass and momentum which results in the spreading of the jet. An experimental investigation of pressure distribution on a target plate placed in the jet flow field has been performed and analyzed. The main purpose of this research is to numerically simulate the flow characteristics of high speed water jets in air. Since, to the best of our knowledge, there is no numerical model to describe the flow physics of high speed jets, novel numerical models are proposed. Results obtained from the numerical simulation are compared to the existing experimental results in the literature, as well as our own experimental data. Different flow properties were analyzed to provide considerable insight into the physics of these flows.
Recommended Citation
Guha, Anirban, "Modeling of high speed water jets in air" (2008). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2755.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/2755