Dilution zone mixing studies

The objectives and status of a project to investigate various aspects of the jet in a confined cross flow problem are outlined. The experiments performed thus far dealt primarily with a single row of jets mixing into an isothermal flow in a constant cross section duct. Variations in the mixing were observed as a function of jet to mainstream momentum ratio, orifice size, and spacing. The current experiments examine perturbations of this problem characteristic to gas turbine combustion chambers, namely: flow area convergence, nonisothermal mainstream flow, and opposed in line and staggered injection. An empirical model was developed to describe the observed temperature distributions. The current interactive code provides a 3-D pictorial representation of the temperature, as given by these correlations, for any user specified downstream location, flow, and orifice parameters.