Abstract:In order to understand the selfpulsation characteristics of the gas/liquid openend swirl coaxial injector, the atomization test in the atmospheric environment is carried out by adopting the shadow method and the dynamic measurement system. The exit of injector nearby presents a periodic spray process significantly with upstream transient pressure responding repeatedly, while selfpulsation happens. Moreover, the frequency of former pressure, acoustic pressure and spray graphics are highly consistent, ranging from 1 583 Hz to 5 634 Hz. Through analyzing flow rate discipline, its concluded that the injection pressure always presents increasing due to the interaction of gas phase and liquid phase, whether the atomization field displays stable or selfpulsation. As well, liquid flow has stronger influence on the injection pressure than gas flow. The results show that selfpulsation frequency increases with gas phase and liquid phase mass flow, and is relatively sensitive to liquid phase mass flow. As the liquid mass flow growing to critical level, the selfpulsation disappears. Then the selfpulsation frequency keeps improving slowly with gas mass flow increasing. The openend swirl coaxial injector has the upper and lower liquid phase boundary condition generated selfpulsation, and the range widens as gas phase increases. So the gas phase promotes selfpulsation, however liquid phase hampers the development of the selfpulsation. When the liquid swirl injectors wall is thickened, the liquid film thickness increases and the dimensionless gas core shrinks. Furthermore, the selfpulsation frequency of the new coaxial injector is larger than that of the original one.