Dual-plane PIV investigation of acoustically excited jets in a swirl nozzle
| Autor: | William B. Zimmerman, Julia M. Rees, Gavita S. Regunath |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Physics
Jet (fluid) 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Plane (geometry) Turbulence lcsh:QC801-809 Mechanics Vorticity Dissipation 01 natural sciences Helicity lcsh:QC1-999 010305 fluids & plasmas Physics::Fluid Dynamics lcsh:Geophysics. Cosmic physics Classical mechanics 0103 physical sciences Turbulence kinetic energy lcsh:Q Shear flow lcsh:Science lcsh:Physics 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics Discussions Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, Vol 23, Iss 2, Pp 83-89 (2016) |
| ISSN: | 1607-7946 |
| Popis: | A novel dual-plane dye laser particle image velocimetry\ud (PIV) technique used to analyze helicity and energy\ud dissipation in an unexcited turbulent swirling jet of pressurized\ud cold air has established that regions within the flow\ud field of the jet exhibiting high helicity are correlated regions\ud of high turbulent kinetic energy dissipation. This PIV con-\ud figuration provides estimates of all components of the velocity\ud gradient tensor, facilitating calculation of the helicity\ud from the vorticity components. Application of this novel\ud dual-plane PIV technique is extended in this study to investigate\ud helical structures in a turbulent swirling jet where the\ud underlying shear flow is subjected to external acoustic sinusoidal\ud forcing in a plane perpendicular to the central axis of\ud the jet. It was found that acoustic excitation had a significant\ud effect on the mean velocity profile parallel to the direction of\ud the jet. The horizontal forcing resulted in the generation of\ud vorticity that was skewed with a pitch that favored a distribution\ud of angles around 90◦ with respect to the velocity vector.\ud The distribution of the time-averaged helicity angle indicated\ud organized helical activity, but such activity is not dominated\ud by large-scale coherent structures of maximal helicity |
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