TY - JOUR
T1 - Mitigation of whistling in vertical corrugated pipes by liquid addition
AU - van Eckeveld, A. C.
AU - Westerweel, J.
AU - Poelma, C.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - When a corrugated pipe is subject to a dry gas flow, high amplitude sound can be produced (so-called ‘whistling’). It was shown previously that liquid addition to corrugated pipe flow has the ability to reduce sound production. Small amounts of liquid are sufficient to mitigate whistling entirely. One of the mitigation mechanisms, cavity filling, is studied experimentally. Acoustic measurements are combined with a planar laser-induced fluorescence technique to measure the liquid accumulation in the cavities of a corrugated pipe. Using this technique, it is shown that the amount of filling of the cavities with liquid increases with increasing liquid injection rate and with reducing gas flow rate. The reduction in whistling amplitude caused by the liquid injection is closely related to the cavity filling. This indicates that the geometric alteration of the pipe wall, caused by the accumulation of liquid inside the cavities, is an important factor in the reduction in whistling amplitude.
AB - When a corrugated pipe is subject to a dry gas flow, high amplitude sound can be produced (so-called ‘whistling’). It was shown previously that liquid addition to corrugated pipe flow has the ability to reduce sound production. Small amounts of liquid are sufficient to mitigate whistling entirely. One of the mitigation mechanisms, cavity filling, is studied experimentally. Acoustic measurements are combined with a planar laser-induced fluorescence technique to measure the liquid accumulation in the cavities of a corrugated pipe. Using this technique, it is shown that the amount of filling of the cavities with liquid increases with increasing liquid injection rate and with reducing gas flow rate. The reduction in whistling amplitude caused by the liquid injection is closely related to the cavity filling. This indicates that the geometric alteration of the pipe wall, caused by the accumulation of liquid inside the cavities, is an important factor in the reduction in whistling amplitude.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00348-017-2391-1
DO - 10.1007/s00348-017-2391-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85026853956
VL - 58
JO - Experiments in Fluids: experimental methods and their applications to fluid flow
JF - Experiments in Fluids: experimental methods and their applications to fluid flow
SN - 0723-4864
IS - 9
M1 - 107
ER -