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ArticleKAUST Department
High-Speed Fluids Imaging LaboratoryMechanical Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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URF/1/2621-01-01Date
2020-04-02Submitted Date
2019-10-07Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/662430
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Past studies have shown that liquid jet breakup behavior can be classified into five regimes: Rayleigh, first wind, sinuous, second wind, and atomization. By experimentally examining the breakup of superfluid and normal liquid 4 He in an atmosphere of its own vapor, we investigate the evolution of the jet behavior over a large range of the traditional three-dimensional parameter space of the Ohnesorge number [Oh l∼O ( 10−5–10−2)], Reynolds number [Rel ∼O(102–106)], and gas-liquid density ratio [ρg/ρl∼O(10−4–1)]. Using dimensional analysis we find that the transition from Rayleigh to first-wind breakup occurs at a constant liquid Weber number, and that the transitions from first wind to sinuous, and sinuous to second wind occur at constant gas Weber numbers. The proposed transitions, which differ from some previous studies, are well supported by our new experimental data that extend over all three dimensions of the parameter space. We do not observe any obvious effects of superfluidity on the breakup behavior. In addition, we examine the breakup length and comment on the transition of a liquid jet to a gaseous jet as the temperature passes through the critical point.Citation
Speirs, N. B., Langley, K. R., Taborek, P., & Thoroddsen, S. T. (2020). Jet breakup in superfluid and normal liquid He4. Physical Review Fluids, 5(4). doi:10.1103/physrevfluids.5.044001Sponsors
This work was supported by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) under Grant No. URF/1/2621-01-01.Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)Journal
Physical Review FluidsAdditional Links
https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.5.044001ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1103/physrevfluids.5.044001
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