TY - JOUR AU - Milton, B. AB - This paper describes a preliminary investigation of the characteristics of high-speed water jets injected into water from an orifice. The high-speed jets were generated by the impact of a projectile launched by a horizontal single-stage powder gun and submerged in a water test chamber. The ensuing impact-driven high-speed water jets in the water were visualized by the shadowgraph technique, and the images were recorded by a high-speed digital video camera. The processes following such jet injection into water, the jet-induced shock waves, shock wave propagation, the bubble behavior, bubble collapse-induced rebound shock waves and bubble cloud re-generation were observed. Peak over-pressures of about 24 and 35 GPa measured by a Polyvinylidence difluoride (PVDF) piezoelectric film pressure sensor were generated by the jet impingement and the bubble impingement, respectively. The peak over-pressure was found to decrease exponentially as the stand-off distance between the PVDF pressure sensor and the nozzle exit increases. TI - Characteristics of impact-driven high-speed liquid jets in water JF - Shock Waves DO - 10.1007/s00193-013-0431-1 DA - 2013-02-15 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/characteristics-of-impact-driven-high-speed-liquid-jets-in-water-pVg7KT28GI SP - 105 EP - 114 VL - 23 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -