Jet Flows

Dear Colleagues,

Since jet flows have a wide range of engineering applications, they take various forms, including liquid, gas, plasma, a mixture of several phases, laminar/turbulent flow, compressible/incompressible flow, subsonic/supersonic flow, and so on. Jet flows cause various interesting phenomena, such as, in a gas-phase jet, the oscillation and sound generation resulting from several complicated mechanisms such as instability in the shear layer, vortex generation and collapse, and vortex/wall or vortex/shockwave interaction; in a liquid or gas–liquid two-phase jet, a change in phase from liquid to gas or vice versa, occasionally resulting in unstable phenomena.

Various applications of jet flows are being considered in aerospace engineering, such as propulsion, injector, ejector, cooling, heating, atomization, and so on. The scales of jet flows appearing in aerospace engineering range from micro to macro. In recent years, studies on the application of jets as actuators for flow control have been of interest. Many types of actuators creating jets with various motions are applied to different flow controls, such as the suppression of boundary layer separation, noise reduction, mixing enhancement, heat transfer improvement, and so on.

This Special Issue, entitled "Jet Flows", aims to address topics related to various types of jet flows appearing in aerospace engineering. Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts on their analytical, computational, and experimental studies that aim to clarify flow physics in jet flows or apply jet flows to aerospace equipment and devices.

Prof. Dr. Taro Handa
Dr. Taku Nonomura
Guest Editors

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