Experimental and Analytical Sonic Nozzle Discharge Coefficients for Reynolds Numbers up to 8×106

The effects of nozzle geometry on waterjet breakup at high Reynolds numbers

Waterjet breakup is traditionally considered to follow the Ohnesorge classification. In this classification, high Reynolds number waterjets are considered to atomize quickly after discharge. By generating a constricted waterjet where the water flow stays detached all the way through the nozzle, we have observed the first wind-induced breakup mode at high Reynolds numbers. Such a peculiar behavi...

Effects of moderate Reynolds numbers on subsonic round jets with highly disturbed nozzle-exit boundary layers

Ventilation Coefficients for Falling Ice Crystals in the Atmosphere at Low–Intermediate Reynolds Numbers

The ventilation coefficients for columnar, hexagonal plate, and broad branch ice crystals falling in air are computed by first solving numerically the convective diffusion equation for water vapor density to obtain its profile around these ice crystals and then determining the total vapor flux on the surface of the crystal. The ratio of this flux to the flux on a stationary crystal gives the ve...

Transport coefficients for the shear dynamo problem at small Reynolds numbers.

We build on the formulation developed in S. Sridhar and N. K. Singh [J. Fluid Mech. 664, 265 (2010)] and present a theory of the shear dynamo problem for small magnetic and fluid Reynolds numbers, but for arbitrary values of the shear parameter. Specializing to the case of a mean magnetic field that is slowly varying in time, explicit expressions for the transport coefficients α(il) and η(il) a...

Second Virial Coefficients for Nonspherical Molecules and Their Experimental Measurements

The virial coefficients can be obtained from statistical mechanics in connection with the intermolecular potentials. The intermolecular potential of polyatomic molecules is usually assumed to consist of a spherically symmetric component plus a contribution due to asphericaity of the molecular charge distribution. In this study, the second virial coefficients have been calculated for N2...