Author(s)

Tomohiro Degawa¹, Shota Fukue², Tomomi Uchiyama¹, Akira Ishikawa³, Koji Motoyama³

¹Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
²Mitsubishi Electric Co., Tokyo, Japan.
³Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc., Nagoya, Japan.

This study is concerned with the experimental investigation of a jet issuing diagonally upward into a two-layer density-stratified fluid in a cylindrical tank and the resulting mixing phenomena. The upper and lower fluids are water and an aqueous solution of sodium chloride (NaCl), respectively, and the lower fluid issues from a nozzle on the bottom of the tank. The angle between the centerline of the jet and the bottom of the tank is 60^o, and the mass concentration of the NaCl solution is 0.02. The investigation reveals that secondary flow is caused by the jet in the horizontal cross-sections of the tank and that it is composed of a pair of vortices. It confirms that the secondary flow at the density interface corresponds to an internal density current. The investigation also clarifies the effect of the Reynolds number of the jet on mixing between the lower and upper fluids.

Jet, Density-Stratified Fluid, Mixing, Secondary Flow, Density Current

Degawa, T. , Fukue, S. , Uchiyama, T. , Ishikawa, A. and Motoyama, K. (2017) Behavior of a Jet Issuing Diagonally Upward into Two-Layer Density-Stratified Fluid in a Cylindrical Tank. Journal of Flow Control, Measurement & Visualization, 5, 51-64. doi: 10.4236/jfcmv.2017.53004.