Publikationsrepositorium - Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

The paper presents an experimental investigation regarding the phenomenon of air entrainment as a result of a jet impinging into a tank filled with water. The main objective of the work consists of gathering information about the concentration of the entrained void fraction, bubble velocities and the entrainment rate. For this purpose, a measuring technique based on wire-mesh sensors was used. For distinct combinations of nozzle exit velocity, jet length and immersion depth, the concentration and distribution of the entrained void fraction, as well as bubble size distributions and velocities were acquired. The corresponding calculated entrainment rate was found to increase linearly with both jet exit velocity and length, and to be smaller than predicted by literature. The experiments aim to provide an extensive database for air entrainment under plunging jets, needed for validation of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) codes.