Numerical investigation of cavitating flow behind the cone of a poppet valve in water hydraulic system

摘要

Computational Fluid Dynarmics(CFD) simulations of cavitating flow throuth water hydraulic poppet valves were performed using advanced RNG κ-epsilon turbulence model. The flow was turbulent, incom-pressible and unsteady, for Reynolds nurnbers greater than 43 000.The working fluid was water, and the structure of the valve was simplified as a two dimensionl axisynmmetric gecomtrical model. Flow Field vlsual-ization was numerically achieved. The effects of inlet velocity, outlet pressure, opening size as wall as popet angle on cavitation intensity in the poppet valve were numerically investigated. Experimentall flow visualization was coonducted to capture cavitation images near the orifice in the poppet valve with 30° poppet angle using high speed video camera.The binary cavitafing flow field distrilxrdon obtalned frcra digital processing of the original cavitation image showed a gtxxt agreement with the ntmaerieal