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WATER JET CONFERENCE - Waterjet Technology Association

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DISCUSSION<br />

NAME: John Griffiths<br />

COMPANY: Sheldon Birmingham England<br />

QUESTION: "Do you agree that in part the relative inefficiency of a fan jet, when<br />

compared with a round jet is due to the form and method of production of conventional<br />

fanjets? With fan jets of a more exact form, where care is taken, on the shape and surface<br />

finish, destructive power is exhibited at distances up to 4 times shown in your paper."<br />

ANSWER: While it is true that considerable improvement in jet performance can be<br />

achieved where care is taken in the construction of the nozzle, it must be recognized that<br />

the basic form of the fan issuing from a spray nozzle is such that as the sheet leaving the<br />

nozzle moves further away, it will, at the same time get thinner. Thus a point is reached,<br />

as a function of the flow rate through the nozzle, at which the sheet is no longer thick<br />

enough to resist the surface tension forces and it will therefore disintegrate into droplets.<br />

This phenomenon is unlikely to be much affected by changes in the nozzle geometry,<br />

beyond a certain point, although it will of course be markedly affected by the angle at<br />

which the jet is directed away from the nozzle.<br />

NAME: Larry Pater<br />

COMPANY: Dravo<br />

QUESTION: "Does the shape of the tip of center body probe strongly affect the<br />

generation of cavitation bubbles?"<br />

ANSWER: The shape of the centerbody has a substantial affect on the induction of<br />

cavitation bubbles into the jet stream. From our experience a flat ended shape has been<br />

the best, although our study has been by no means exhaustive. I would suggest that there<br />

may be better shapes, information on these might well be obtained from studies of<br />

cavitation flows induced in conventional fluid streams.<br />

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