Experimental research on wet steam flow with shock wave

The article presents research on a wet steam transonic flow in a Laval half-nozzle with a shock wave. The motivation for this research was to investigate the shock wave/liquid phase interaction in the transonic wet steam flow. This phenomenon is responsible for the lack of good correspondence between experimental data and computational fluid dynamics results. For the tests, the geometry of the half-arc nozzle was used. The shock wave formation at the divergent section of the nozzle is caused by too high back-pressure. The observed instabilities in the flow are mainly initiated by the shock wave/liquid film (boundary layer) interaction. The numerical calculations were compared with experimental results with respect to the static pressure distribution along the nozzle.