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Global stability of the focusing effect of fluid jet flows

J. M. Montanero and N. Rebollo-Muñoz

M. A. Herrada and A. M. Gañán-Calvo

  • Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica, Energética y de los Materiales, Universidad de Extremadura, E-06006 Badajoz, Spain

  • Departamento de Ingeniería Aeroespacial y Mecánica de Fluidos, Universidad de Sevilla, E-41092 Sevilla, Spain

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Phys. Rev. E 83, 036309 – Published 15 March, 2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.83.036309

Abstract

The global stability of the steady jetting mode of liquid jets focused by coaxial gas streams is analyzed both theoretically and experimentally. Numerical simulations allow one to identify the physical mechanisms responsible for instability in the low viscosity and very viscous regimes of the focused liquid. The characteristic flow rates for which global instability takes place are estimated by a simple scaling analysis. These flow rates do not depend on the pressure drop (energy) applied to the system to produce the microjet. Their dependencies on the liquid viscosity are opposite for the two extremes studied: the characteristic flow rate increases (decreases) with viscosity for very low (high) viscosity liquids. Experiments confirmed the validity of these conclusions. The minimum flow rates below which the liquid meniscus becomes unstable are practically independent of the applied pressure drop for sufficiently large values of this quantity. For all the liquids analyzed, there exists an optimum value of the capillary-to-orifice distance for which the minimum flow rate attains a limiting value. That limiting value represents the lowest flow rate attainable with a given experimental configuration in the steady jetting regime. A two-dimensional stability map with a high degree of validity is plotted on the plane defined by the Reynolds and capillary numbers based on the limiting flow rate.

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Phys. Rev. E 83, 036309– Published 15 March, 2011
  • Received 18 June 2010

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