A submerged,vertical turbulent plane water jet impinging onto a free surface will be self-excited into a flapping oscillation when the jet velocity,leaving the jet orifice,exceeds a critical value.The flapping phenomenon was verified simultaneously in this paper by laser Doppler velocimeter measurement and numerical analyses with volume of fluid approach coupled with a large eddy simulation turbulent model.The general agreement of mean velocities between numerical predictions and experimental results in self-similar region is good for two cases:Reynolds numbers 2090 and 2970,which correspond to the stable impinging jet and flapping jet.Results show that the flapping jet is a new flow pattern for submerged turbulent plane jets with characteristic flapping frequency,and that the decay of the mean velocity along the jet centerline is considerably faster than that of the stable impinging state.
A submerged turbulent plane jet in shallow water impinging vertically onto the free surface will produce a large-scale flapping motion when the jet exit velocity is larger than a critical one.The flapping phenomenon is verified in this paper through a large eddy simulation where the free surface is modeled by volume of fluid approach.The quantitative results for flapping jet are found to be in good agreement with available experimental data in terms of mean velocity,flapping-induced velocity and turbulence intensity.Results show that the flapping motion is a new flow pattern with characteristic flapping frequency for submerged turbulent plane jets,the mean centerline velocity decay is considerably faster than that of the stable impinging jet without flapping motion,and the flapping-induced velocities are as important as the turbulent fluctuations.
Flapping characteristics of the self-excited flapping motion of submerged vertical turbulent jet in narrow channels are studied theoretically and experimentally.It is found that the water depth is a most important parameter to the critical jet exit velocity and the jet flapping frequency.The results indicate that the critical jet exit velocity increases with water depth and the jet flapping frequency is inversely proportional to the water depth.Meanwhile,experimental result also shows that the surface disturbance wave changes the frequency of flapping motion,i.e.the flapping frequency locks-in the disturbing frequency when the disturbing frequency is near and less than the natural flapping frequency.
Oscillation phenomena in far field region of plane jets are studied by lattice Boltzmann method over a range of Reynolds numbers ( Re ) from 16to 65.Numerical results show that the instantaneous centerline velocities show periodic oscillation behavior in far field region when Re>38.In contrast , the periodic behavior is invisible in corresponding flow field when Re≤38.For the cases of Re≤38 , the exchange of momentum due to straining motion gradually dominates the downstream flow filed , which qualitatively suggests the possibility of jet instability.
