Liquid flow is subject
to head loss because of viscous force, surface
tension, friction force, and so on. Part of the energy is irreversibly
converted into heat, which then dissipates into the environment. Head
loss intensifies in the turbulent state. At present, few studies explore
the law of head loss caused by secondary flow, cavitation intensity,
and turbulence intensity. In this study, the head losses in different
sections of a jet pump were studied by controlling the cavitation
number σ, the secondary flow rate
Q
s
, and the inlet pressure
p
i
. The experimental
results were analyzed with the aid of computational fluid dynamics.
The results show that an increase in
Q
s
can weaken the variations of
Q
s
and
suction pressure
p
s
in the transitional
stage of cavitation. Besides, σ,
Q
s
, and
p
i
influence head loss to varying
extents. Cavitation intensity and turbulence intensity are the main
factors for head loss and jet temperature difference. In particular,
the influence of
Q
s
on head loss provides
guidance both for reducing the energy loss of the quantitative adding
device and jet aerator and for expanding the stable adding range of
the jet. More importantly, the main factors of energy loss caused
by jet cavitation were analyzed in detail, which can effectively facilitate
the pipeline design to reduce the local and frictional head loss.