When a heat exchanger in a Fast Breeder Reactor cracks, highly pressurized water or steam escapes into the surrounding liquid sodium. A sodium-water reaction then occurs, forming disodium oxide (and hydrogen gas). It can cause secondary damages to the heat exchangers by the reaction heat and erosion corrosion. The released flow of steam from the cracks of the heat exchanger is an underexpanded jet because the ambient pressure outside the tubes is lower than the critical pressure. When the pressure of a jet released at high pressure cannot be reduced to the low pressure of the ambient fluid, the flow is said to be underexpanded. Because this expansion causes a reduction of pressure and the pressure is lower than the critical pressure, the velocity of the flow can reach supersonic speed. Several studies have examined the underexpansion of the gas-gas phase. However, there have been few studies on the underexpansion of gas-liquid two-phase flows. The flow characteristics of the gas-liquid two-phase flow differ from the gas-gas flow because breakups of the bubbles appear in the gas-liquid two-phase flow. Therefore, in this study qualitative measurement was carried out for the purpose of revealing the flow with the underexpanded gas jet injected into water. The gas jet distance L and the expansion angle θ were then obtained from averaged image of a high-speed camera. L and θ increased approximately linearly with increasing pressure. The entrainment velocity and the velocity of entrained water droplets into the gas jet were obtained by PIV. Images of unstable expansion near the jet nozzle were captured for the first time.
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ASME 2009 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the InterPACK09 and 3rd Energy Sustainability Conferences
July 19–23, 2009
San Francisco, California, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Heat Transfer Division
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978-0-7918-4358-1
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Mitsunori Uchida,
Mitsunori Uchida
University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
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Satoshi Someya,
Satoshi Someya
University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba; AIST, Tsukuba, Japan
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Koji Okamoto,
Koji Okamoto
University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
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Hiroyuki Ohshima
Hiroyuki Ohshima
Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Higashi-ibaraki, Ibaraki, Japan
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Mitsunori Uchida
University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
Satoshi Someya
University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba; AIST, Tsukuba, Japan
Koji Okamoto
University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
Hiroyuki Ohshima
Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Higashi-ibaraki, Ibaraki, Japan
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HT2009-88417, pp. 881-888; 8 pages
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March 12, 2010
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Uchida, M, Someya, S, Okamoto, K, & Ohshima, H. "Preliminary Experiments With an Underexpanded Gas Jet Into Water." Proceedings of the ASME 2009 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the InterPACK09 and 3rd Energy Sustainability Conferences. Volume 3: Combustion, Fire and Reacting Flow; Heat Transfer in Multiphase Systems; Heat Transfer in Transport Phenomena in Manufacturing and Materials Processing; Heat and Mass Transfer in Biotechnology; Low Temperature Heat Transfer; Environmental Heat Transfer; Heat Transfer Education; Visualization of Heat Transfer. San Francisco, California, USA. July 19–23, 2009. pp. 881-888. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/HT2009-88417
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