Experimental and numerical study on cavitation flow characteristics of refrigerants with different thermophysical properties in confined micro-clearance
Shaohang Yan , Tianwei Lai , Zhen Wang , Qi Zhao , Yu Hou
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Abstract
In high-speed hydraulic machinery, its efficiency and reliability are affected by the cavitation in the bearing. Due to the confined effect of the bearing clearance, cavitation bubbles grow in a two-dimensional way. To uncover the cavitation process with confined and high speed shearing effect, the high-speed cavitation flowing of different refrigerants is researched experimentally based on the high-speed shearing test rig with micro-clearance. The influence of thermophysical properties on growth of cavitation bubble is evaluated and analyzed. The confined effect of micro-clearance and high-speed shearing effect has a significant influence on the cavitation bubbles evolution. The high-speed camera is used to record the morphology of cavitation bubbles for various refrigerants with different thermalphysical properties. Furthermore, the thermal-sensitive cavitation model is used to analyze the bubble-foam alternation from cavitation flow inside micro-clearance. For different refrigerants, the growth process of cavitation bubble area is exponential. Inside the micro-clearance, the cavitation inducing pressure drops of different refrigerants are analogous due to the similar thermodynamic properties. According to pressure drop during cavitation, different refrigerants are classified by introducing dimensionless numbers, σ·Re (Jie et al., 2009) [2] and σ·We. The pressure and temperature drop increase with the dimensionless numbers. The refrigerants with similar thermodynamic properties have a similar relationship between dimensionless number and supercooling degree.
在高速液压机械中,轴承内的气蚀影响其工作效率和可靠性。由于轴承间隙的限制作用,空化气泡以二维方式生长。为了揭示密闭剪切和高速剪切作用下的空化过程,在微间隙高速剪切试验台上对不同制冷剂的高速空化流动进行了实验研究。评价和分析了热物理性质对空化气泡生长的影响。微间隙的限制效应和高速剪切效应对空化气泡的演化有显著影响。利用高速摄像机记录了不同热物性制冷剂的空化气泡形态。在此基础上,利用热敏空化模型分析了微间隙内空化流的气泡-泡沫交替现象。对于不同的制冷剂,空化气泡面积的增长过程呈指数增长。在微间隙内,由于热力学性质相似,不同制冷剂的空化诱导压降是相似的。根据空化过程中的压降,通过引入无因次数σ·Re (Jie et al., 2009)[2]和σ·We对不同制冷剂进行分类。随着无因次数的增加,压力和温度下降增大。具有相似热力学性质的制冷剂,其无因次数与过冷度之间的关系相似。
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