简介:Axisymmetricliquidjetshavebeenstudiedextensivelyformorethanonecentury,whilenon-axisymmetricjetsarealsoverycommoninengineeringapplicationsbutattractlessconcern.BasedonEulerianfluid-fluidmodelinFluentsoftware,thisarticleanalysizesthe3-DflowfieldsofpressureatomizerswithV-shapedcutatorifice,whichwillresultinanon-axisymmetricliquidjet.Flowrateanalysisandjetstructureanalysisarecarriedout,theresultsshowthattheflowratecanbeformulatedbyaddingacorrectioncoefficienttotheformulaofinviscidaxisymmetricjetsinatomizationregime,whentheWebernumberislowenoughtomaketheflowfalloutofatomizationregime,andthejetstructuretogetherwiththeflowrateformulawillchange.Analysisshowsthattheevolutionofthesprayandthereforethestructureoftheliquidjetareaffectedmuchbyrelativevelocityandthelocalvolumefractionofliquidphase.