Energy dissipation through entrained air compression in plunging jets

The energy dissipation in plunge pools is often related to air entrainment in the plunging jet. Recent experimental work showed that the void fractions below the impinging jet are significantly smaller than outside the jet impact. This was attributed to the compression of the entrained air bubbles....

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Published in:Journal of hydraulic research 2020-04, Vol.58 (3), p.541-547
Main Author: Müller, Gerald
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aerated flow
Air bubbles
Air entrainment
Approximation
bubble dynamics
Bubbles
Civil engineering
Compression
Computational fluid dynamics
Energy dissipation
Energy exchange
Entrainment
Fluid flow
Hydraulics
Lower bounds
multiphase flow
Pools
similarity (scaling) theory
Velocity
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Summary:The energy dissipation in plunge pools is often related to air entrainment in the plunging jet. Recent experimental work showed that the void fractions below the impinging jet are significantly smaller than outside the jet impact. This was attributed to the compression of the entrained air bubbles. In this paper, the thermodynamics of air bubble compression is introduced as a novel energy dissipation mechanism in civil engineering hydraulics. For the analysis of reported experimental data, isothermal conditions were applied as a lower bound approximation. It was found that the energy dissipation rates range from 2.7-9.7% for a jet velocity of 10 m s −2 and void fractions of 0.11 and 0.31, to 15.9-36.0% for a jet velocity of 24.5 m s −1 and void fractions of 0.35-0.55. The results may explain the difference between energy dissipation rates in plunge pools at model and full scale.
ISSN:0022-1686
1814-2079
DOI:10.1080/00221686.2019.1609105