Momentum exchange in coaxial jet flows

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2005
Peker, Ekim Atilla
Coaxial jet flows have a considerable practical application area as water jet pumps. Efficiency of such systems is affected by complex turbulence mechanisms and large-scale vortex structures formed in the mixing regions. An experimental setup is constructed to estimate the momentum exchange rates and mixing of the two jet flows from the coaxial pipes. Pressure distributions along the mixing pipe wall are measured for different flow ratios of the jets. In addition to present experiments, numerical data of two experimental studies from the literature are considered as test cases. Numerical solutions for the test cases are obtained using FLUENT. Experimental and numerical results are compared and adequacy of FLUENT solution is illustrated.

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E. A. Peker, “Momentum exchange in coaxial jet flows,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2005.