Evaluation of the cavitation generator efficiency in the hydro impulsive loosening of a coal-bed

The paper presents the results of mining and experimental work, bench tests and theoretical studies of the energy characteristics of the stationary and pulsating fluid flow, which allow to estimate the efficiency of the cavitation generator in the hydro impulsive loosening of an outburst-prone coal-bed. The active stage of the hydro impulsive loosening and the effective range of the amplitude-frequency (AF) spectrum of the generator operation acoustic signal have been established by the AF spectrum of the sound accompaniment of the hydro impulse impact and the backup pressure of the liquid in the well. By calculation for this range the energy characteristics of the static and dynamic components of the pulsating fluid flow were determined. This made it possible to determine that the efficiency of the cavitation generator, all other conditions of the coal-bed hydro loosening being equal, is 4.8–1.2 times higher than the efficiency of the static impact

Numerical simulation of flow-induced acoustic oscillations around circular cylinders

Questions of numerical simulation of acoustic oscillations generation modes in the liquid flow around the groups of two and three circular cylinders are considered. In mining industry the processes of hydrodynamic impact on gas-saturated porous media produce significant acoustic emission both at the injection stage and at the liquid discharge stage. Simulation of such kind of acoustic processes is one of the actual problems of theoretical and applied fluid mechanics and under certain assumptions could be reduced to the flow around a group of bodies. Two approaches for numerical simulation of the acoustic oscillations generation induced by the flow around circular cylinders based on numerical solution of the Navier-Stokes equations for compressible and incompressible flows closed by differential model of turbulence and complemented by acoustic analogy equations have been developed. For laminar flows, eight different modes that fundamentally differ both in the flow structure and in the frequency spectrum of parameter oscillations have been identified. For turbulent flows, the classification criteria for the three main frequency modes are presented. Acoustic data are obtained using the Direct Noise Computation technology and acoustic analogies as well