US 12,093,617 B2
Method for three-dimensional special-shaped jet nozzle used in field of water-saving irrigation in farmland
Xiaoping Jiang, Nanjing (CN); Weixing Cao, Nanjing (CN); Yan Zhu, Nanjing (CN); Jun Ni, Nanjing (CN); Yongchao Tian, Nanjing (CN); Bin Xu, Nanjing (CN); Jinzhao Hu, Nanjing (CN); Yaoyao Liao, Nanjing (CN); Xingchen Wang, Nanjing (CN); and Ying Zhang, Nanjing (CN)
Assigned to NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, Nanjing (CN)
Filed by NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, Nanjing (CN)
Filed on Oct. 31, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/498,915.
Claims priority of application No. 202211694691 (CN), filed on Dec. 28, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0220689 A1, Jul. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 30/28 (2020.01)
CPC G06F 30/28 (2020.01) 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A design method for a jet nozzle with a narrow-band spray field used for water-saving irrigation in farmland, comprising:
coupling a fan-shaped jet mode and a beam-shaped jet mode according to an area ratio and a velocity ratio based on a gas-liquid two-phase flow theory and computational fluid dynamics (CFD);
presenting a cylindrical-conical coupling structure from an inlet to an outlet of the jet nozzle;
designing a jet orifice into a three-dimensional special-shaped slotted structure;
forming V-shaped slots in bottom and front portions of a midperpendicular plane along a flowing direction of the jet orifice, wherein a fan-shaped jet forms a near-range water body prevails, a strip-shaped slot is formed in an upper half portion of the midperpendicular plane, a beam-shaped jet forms a far-range water body prevails; and the V-shaped slots and the strip-shaped slot promote the formation of a narrow-band range S in a synergistic manner due to smooth joint transition therebetween;
ignoring weak structures which have little influence on the formation of the narrow-band spray field by simplification and by employing CAD three-dimensional modeling software, establishing physical models of a body of the jet nozzle, a variable-diameter rectifier tube and a diversion elbow corresponding to respective parameter tables;
carrying out volume of fluid (VOF) model multiphase flow numerical simulation calculation and full flow field setting unsteady numerical simulation calculation respectively on all parameter sets of an external flow field near an outlet of the body of the jet nozzle used in the established narrow-band spray field and an internal flow field established by the part of fluid inside the body of the jet nozzle, the variable-diameter rectifier tube and the diversion elbow by using a finite element analysis meshing tool and a fluid dynamics calculation software, on the basis of grid independence check;
checking the external flow field, the internal flow field and flow pattern distribution through post-processing analysis of all example models; analyzing qualitatively and quantitatively a vortex structure and an energy dissipation mechanism, a main form, distribution rule and approximate proportion of energy loss in all the example models in combination with a turbulence model, analyzing and summarizing main ways to improve structural physical models; improving an optimal model repeatedly, and determining the optimal parameters; producing a prototype of the optimal model according to the post-processing analysis of all the example models, verifying whether the prototype meets an initial design objective through experiments, and finalizing the jet nozzle used for water-saving irrigation in the farmland with the narrow-band spray field, provided with a high uniformity at the outlet of the body of the jet nozzle; and
optimizing the body of the jet nozzle suitable for the narrow-band spray field, with an outer circle surface at a small-diameter end being conical; forming a three-dimensional duckbill-shaped profiled slot vertically in the flow direction of an outlet of the jet nozzle, wherein the three-dimensional duckbill-shaped profiled slot is a V-shaped tangent slot from inside to outside, and a rabbet thereof gradually opens outwards and upwards; providing a strip-shaped tangent slot at an upper portion of the body of the jet nozzle with a starting position extending backwards by a certain length or distance from a direction of an incoming flow, wherein the strip-shaped tangent slot is uniform in width or has a small diffusion angle structure from inside to outside.