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8th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference (TFEC)
March, 26-29, 2023, College Park, MD, USA

THE SHAPE AND THICKNESS OF THE LIQUID FILM FORMED BY THE OBLIQUE IMPINGEMENT OF MULTIPLE JETS ONTO A WALL

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DOI: 10.1615/TFEC2023.mpp.045608

Abstract

In order to investigate the difference between the liquid film formed by the oblique impingement of two parallel jets and the liquid film formed by the oblique impingement of a single jet, the shape and thickness distribution of the two kinds of liquid film are experimentally studied. The effects of the jet velocity, impact angle and jet interval are considered. For the liquid film formed by two impinging jets, the results show that the film has a large length and a small width in the regions affected by the upwash flow formed by the collision of two adjacent raised zones. The relative difference of film length between the two impinging jets and a single impinging jet is larger than 25%, and the two impinging jets has a largest film length when the jet interval is 8 mm. The film has a larger thin-layer thickness in the upwash-affected regions and a larger thickness in the raised zone than that of the film formed by a single impinging jet. The maximum relative difference of the thin-layer thickness is about 46%, and the relative thickness difference on the maximum width line of the raised zone is about 34%, when the jet velocity is 7.2 m/s. The measured thickness of the upwash flow on the maximum width line decreases with the increase of jet velocity, hardly changes with the increase of impact angle, and increases first and then decreases when the jet interval increases.