The importance of cavitation inside multi-hole injectors for direct injection internal combustion (IC) engineshas been addressed in many previous investigations. Still, the effect of cavitation on jet spray, its stability and liquid breakup and atomisation is not yet fully understood. The current experimental work aims to address some of these issues. It focuses on the initiation and development of cavitation inside a 7× enlarged transparent model of a symmetric 6-hole spark ignition direct injection (SIDI) injector and quantifies the effect of cavitation on near-nozzle spray cone angle and stability utilising high speed Mie scattering visualisation. The regions studied include the full length of the nozzle and its exitjet spray wherethe primary breakup takes place

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Nouri, J. M. (2015). Influence of cavitation on near nozzle exit spray. Paper presented at the CAV 2015. 9th Int. Symp. On Cavitation, 6-10 Dec 2015, Lausanne, Switzerland. City Research OnlineOriginal citation: Nouri, J. M. (2015). Influence of cavitation on near nozzle exit spray. Paper presented at the CAV 2015. 9th Int. Symp. On Cavitation, 6-10 Dec 2015, Lausanne, Switzerland. Permanent City Research Online URL: http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/14410/ Copyright & reuseCity University London has developed City Research Online so that its users may access the research outputs of City University London's staff. Copyright © and Moral Rights for this paper are retained by the individual author(s) and/ or other copyright holders.  All material in City Research Online is checked for eligibility for copyright before being made available in the live archive. URLs from City Research Online may be freely distributed and linked to from other web pages. Versions of researchThe version in City Research Online may differ from the final published version. Users are advised to check the Permanent City Research Online URL above for the status of the paper.EnquiriesIf you have any enquiries about any aspect of City Research Online, or if you wish to make contact with the author(s) of this paper, please email the team at publications@city.ac.uk.      Influence of cavitation on near nozzle exit spray  M Mirshahi1,2, Y Yan2, JM Nouri2 2 City University London, Northampton Square EC1V 0HB, United Kingdom  Milad.Mirshahi.1@city.ac.uk  Abstract. The importance of cavitation inside multi-hole injectors for direct injection internal combustion (IC) engines has been addressed in many previous investigations. Still, the effect of cavitation on jet spray, its stability and liquid breakup and atomisation is not yet fully understood. The current experimental work aims to address some of these issues. It focuses on the initiation and development of different types of cavitation inside a 7x enlarged transparent model of a symmetric 6-hole spark ignition direct injection (SIDI) injector and quantifies the effect of cavitation on near-nozzle spray cone angle and stability utilising high speed Mie scattering visualisation. The regions studied include the full length of the nozzle and its exit jet spray where the primary breakup takes place.   1.  Introduction Multi-hole injectors for IC engines are wildly used in both diesel and gasoline engines and have many advantageous such as their flexibility in terms of number of holes and their arrangements which can be fitted to different combustion cylinder head, their ability to produce stable spray which is critical for spray guided combustion concept and their ability to be used at high injection pressure to ensure enhanced atomization and evaporation [1, 2]. Experimental studies of in-nozzle flow characteristics, in particular, cavitation in enlarged transparent models of multi-hole injectors and spray characteristics of real size ones have been extensively investigated by City research group [3-10]. These studies revealed the formation of three different types of cavitation, namely needle, geometric and string cavitation. Cavitation within the nozzle holes of multi-hole SIDI injectors can lead to significant spray instabilities and lack of targeting which can cause problems in combustion when operating in stratified mode. The simultaneous presence of these types of cavitation regimes creates a complex two-phase flow structure in the nozzle holes which seems to be responsible for hole-to-hole and cycle-to-cycle spray variations. Investigations [7-10] revealed the cavitation sites, their frequency of formation, and the locations of erosion within the nozzle. In addition, they showed how to minimise surface erosion using tapered converging holes. Large variations in the instantaneous fuel injection quantity of individual injection holes have been recorded when a cavitation string is observed inside them. Combination with model predictions has revealed that the observed reduction in the individual hole flow rate is partially attributed to the increased vapour fraction inside the hole when a string is present; the vortex flow developing upstream of the hole entry is the main reason for the observed trend [9]. Despite available information, the true dynamics and mechanisms of cavitation development and its link with near nozzle liquid break-up at the exit of the nozzle hole are not fully understood. Therefore deeper understanding of in-nozzle flow characteristics and the dynamic link between cavitation and the emerging jet spray is essential. This calls for high temporal simultaneous imaging of the in-nozzle cavitation and the exiting liquid jet                                                      1 Corresponding author        spray in order to establish how cavitation influence spray shape, instability and break up. Thus the focus of this study is to establish these links and their mechanisms in a 7x 3-D transparent models of a six-hole mini-sac-type nozzle utilised with gasoline direct injection; a high speed camera has been used to obtain simultaneous images at a rate of 50,000fps. 2.  Experimental test-rig The experimental set up is shown in fig. 1a; amultistage centrifugal pump provides the upstream pressure in the transparent enlarged model. Working fluid is water at 25oC. A long telescopic extension tube was used on the CCD camera to maximise the magnification ratio of the screening area. The injection pressure was varied from 0.5bar to 3bar and the sprays from each nozzle hole were injected into the atmosphere and were collected back into the supply tank. A 100mm diameter focusing lens with the focal length of 300mm was used to increase the light intensity around the nozzle area to more than 2 million Lux. Three set of 45° hot mirrors were used to filter out infrared wavelength in order to protect the Perspex nozzle from high temperatures. To ensure capturing high quality images, 2 set of cooling fans were used to decrease the temperature further around the nozzle and also to remove the water mists of the spray away from the near nozzle towards the suction collector to avoid fouling the imaging window. The injector assembly has a needle lift mechanism adjusted by a micrometer to set the exact needle height. The flow inside the nozzles is continuous, i.e. steady state flow condition, which means that transient nature of needle during its opening and closing processes is absent. The enlarged transparent model is geometry similar to the real-size injector and operates at similar Reynolds numbers.   Fig. 1.(a) The closed loop steady-state flow rig of the transparent 7 times enlarged injector with the schematic diagram of flow circuit (left); (b) Close-up of transparent nozzle injector assembly.    Fig. 2. Front view of the 7-times enlarged model installed on the test rig (red box) and schematic of the imaging area and the near-nozzle jet (yellow box). (a) (b)       3.  Results Sample images of the results are shown below. Fig. 3 shows a sequence of 6 images of the in-nozzle flow and the emerging spray at full lift (1.05mm) at cavitation numbers of CN = 0.75, 1, 1.5, 1.75, 2, and 2.5. Cavitation number is defined here as CN= (Pinj - Pback)/(Pback - Pvap). Cavitation was not present at CN range between 0.75 to 1.0. Increasing cavitation above 1 induces cavitation in the nozzle and resulted to full film cavitation from CN=2 and above. It can be claimed that as the cavitation number rises from 1.0 to 1.5, the upper near-nozzle spray angle increases due to cavitation as can be seen from the images shown in fig. 3.        Fig. 3. In-nozzle flow and the emerging spray at CN = 0.75, 1, 1.5, 1.75, 2, and 2.5.        Fig. 4. Comparison of the upper and lower part of the very near-nozzle spray at CN=2.  t = 0μs t = 20μs t = 40μs t = 100μs t = 80μs t = 60μs CN = 0.75 CN = 1 CN = 1.5 CN = 1.75 CN = 2 CN = 2.5 1mm 1mm String cavitation       As cavitation number gradually increases from 1.5 to 2.0, the geometric cavitation becomes more intense and stretches down the nozzle towards the exit. Another observation is that the structure of the geometric cavitation on top of the nozzle undergoes a transition with increase in CN from a cluster of bubbly cloud vapour into a smoothly horseshoe film cavitation as evident from images at CN=2 and CN=2.5 respectively; this had impact on the structure of the upper part of the near exit spray.  Fig. 4 shows a sequence of 6 consecutive images of the in-nozzle flow and the emerging spray at CN = 2.0during100μs. The sequence depicts the near-nozzle structure of the spray with the extension of the smooth curved line that is stretched out of the nozzle. At t = 0, a pocket of bubbles was observed at the lower part of the nozzle inlet. This moves down and reaches the nozzle exit at t=100μs. This shows that the average velocity of this pocket is around 20m/s. However the upper part of the spray has much lower velocity (around 7m/s; tracked by the bold yellow circles)compared to the bottom part of the nozzle where the bulk of the liquid exists. 4.  Conclusion Simultaneous imaging of in-nozzle cavitation and emerging spray have been obtained in a 7 times enlarged model of SIDI injector at different injection pressures and needle lifts under steady state conditions. Observations showed that bubble cloud cavitation influence the structure and the angle of emerging spray, in particular, on the upper part of the nozzle which could lead to spray instabilities. It has also been observed that once the geometric cavitation reaches the exit of the nozzle, its structure transform from a bubbly cloud into a smoothly curved lines film cavitation, which greatly influences the exiting spray structure. 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