Study on Flow-induced Vibration of Cage Type Control Valve

In cage type control valve, sleeve throttling window is used to set flow characteristic curve, which is widely applied in engineering. The internal structure of the cage-type valve is complicated, so the flow field inside the valve is unsteady complex flow. There are a large number of vortexes in the valve chamber, which are the main excitation source that induced control valve vibration. Through-flow structure of the control valve changes in different openings, which leads to the variation of the jet direction when the fluid flows through the throttling window, and in medium and small opening, the situation is more complicated. In this paper, high-frequency pulsating dynamic pressure of the fluid inside the valve has been measured, in order to monitor the internal flow field of the valve. Meanwhile, three-imensional numerical simulation has been carried out to analyze the internal flow field of the valve, and main causes of different vibrations have been found and several ways to weaken the vibration are proposed, which is significant for vibration reduction research of control valve. For the flow-induced vibration in the complex flow channel, the research has great theoretical significance.