Abstract:

Experimental study and numerical simulation were performed for the averaged flow field of two closely spaced opposed jets with hot wire anemometer（HWA）and CFD software and the simulation was compared with the measurement and approximate analytic solution in the literature.The results showed that the exit velocity profile of the single jet was top-hat distribution due to the presence of boundary layers.At L<2D（where L is nozzle separation and D is nozzle diameter），bimodal distribution of exit velocity profile，low in the middle and high on both sides，was present，while such bimodal distribution of exit velocity profile was absent at L=2D.With increasing nozzle separation，the stagnation point offset of the impinging plane increased.With the same velocity ratio，stagnation point offset of the nozzles with uniform profiles was larger than that with top-hat profiles.The approximate analytic solution of the flow field of two opposed jets in the literature was only valid for the nozzles with uniform exit velocity profiles and the prediction accuracy became worse for the nozzles with top-hat exit velocity profiles.