Author:
Melikhov O.I.,Melikhov V.I.,Yakush S.E.,Finoshkina D.V.
Abstract
The model of interaction of a water jet with a melt was validated using experimental data from experiments in which a water jet was injected into a vessel filled with a melt of a eutectic alloy of lead and bismuth. The model is based on the VOF method for immiscible liquids. In the experiments, the experimental data of which were used to validate the model, high-speed X-ray photography was carried out to trace the evolution of the shape of a water jet after its injection into a vessel with a melt. The configurations of the water jet that disintegrates in the melt volume obtained in the calculations were compared with photographs taken during the experiment. Good qualitative agreement between calculations and experiment was obtained. A quantitative comparison of the jet propagation in the melt showed that the jet propagation speed in the calculations is overestimated relative to the experiments at a high water injection rate. This is due to the fact that the model does not take into account the boiling of water on the surface of a hot melt, which is planned to be done in future activity.
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