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The turbulent radial jet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

P. O. Witze  and
H. A. Dwyer
P. O. Witze
Affiliation:
Sandia Laboratories, Livermore, California
H. A. Dwyer
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Davis
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Abstract

A hot-film anemometer has been used to investigate the mean velocity and turbulence intensity distributions in turbulent radial jets. A geometric parameter termed the constraint ratio, defined as the ratio of nozzle diameter to separation distance, is shown to characterize radial-jet behaviour. Large values of the constraint ratio typify ‘constrained’ radial jets, for which the nozzle walls constrain the flow leaving the orifice to be parallel; a small constraint ratio is representative of two opposing free axisymmetric jets, the collision of which produces an ‘impinged’ radial jet. It is found that the well-behaved constrained radial jet spreads at the same rate as does the familiar plane jet, whereas the impinged radial jet spreads at a rate more than three times as fast. Neither type of radial jet is amenable to a self-similar analytic solution; however, while the impinged jet is shown to require numerical solution techniques, an empirical solution for the constrained jet is demonstrated.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 75 , Issue 3 , 11 June 1976 , pp. 401 - 417
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© 1976 Cambridge University Press

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