Turbulence structure in a free bubbly jet: analysis of higher-order statistical moments of velocity fluctuations

This paper presents the results of a statistical analysis of the turbulent structure in a free bubbly jet at a Reynolds number of 12500 based on PIV measurements of the carrier-phase velocity. The distributions of higher-order statistical moments for velocity fluctuations (skewness and excess coefficients) and the energy spectra of turbulence for single-phase and gas-saturated jets were obtained after applying the procedure of statistical filtering to instantaneous velocity fields. The influence of the dispersed phase (bubbles with an average diameter of 0.8 mm) with a volume gas fraction of 0, 1, 2, and 3% for the specified characteristics of the continuous phase was analyzed.