Characteristics and generation of elastic turbulence in a three-dimensional parallel plate channel using direct numerical simulation

Direct numerical simulations(DNSs) of purely elastic turbulence in rectilinear shear flows in a three-dimensional(3D) parallel plate channel were carried out,by which numerical databases were established.Based on the numerical databases,the present paper analyzed the structural and statistical characteristics of the elastic turbulence including flow patterns,the wall effect on the turbulent kinetic energy spectrum,and the local relationship between the flow motion and the microstructures' behavior.Moreover,to address the underlying physical mechanism of elastic turbulence,its generation was presented in terms of the global energy budget.The results showed that the flow structures in elastic turbulence were 3D with spatial scales on the order of the geometrical characteristic length,and vortex tubes were more likely to be embedded in the regions where the polymers were strongly stretched.In addition,the patterns of microstructures' elongation behave like a filament.From the results of the turbulent kinetic energy budget,it was found that the continuous energy releasing from the polymers into the main flow was the main source of the generation and maintenance of the elastic turbulent status.     

Direct numerical simulation study of the interaction between the polymer effect and velocity gradient tensor in decaying homogeneous isotropic turbulence

Direct numerical simulation of decaying homogeneous isotropic turbulence (DHIT) of a polymer solution is performed. In order to understand the polymer effect on turbulence or additive-turbulence interaction, we directly investigate the influence of polymers on velocity gradient tensor including vorticity and strain. By visualizing vortex tubes and sheets, we observe a remarkable inhibition of vortex structures in an intermediate-scale field and a small-scale field but not for a large scale field in DHIT with polymers. The geometric study indicates a strong relevance among the vorticity vector, rate-of-strain tensor, and polymer conformation tensor. Joint probability density functions show that the polymer effect can increase "strain generation resistance" and "vorticity generation resistance", i.e., inhibit the generation of vortex sheets and tubes, ultimately leading to turbulence inhibition effects.     

Large-eddy simulations of a forced homogeneous isotropic turbulence with polymer additives

Large-eddy simulations （LES） based on the temporal approximate deconvolution model were performed for a forced homogeneous isotropic turbulence （FHIT） with polymer additives at moderate Taylor Reynolds number. Finitely extensible nonlinear elastic in the Peterlin approximation model was adopted as the constitutive equation for the filtered conformation tensor of the polymer molecules. The LES results were verified through comparisons with the direct numerical simulation results. Using the LES database of the FHIT in the Newtonian fluid and the polymer solution flows, the polymer effects on some important parameters such as strain, vorticity, drag reduction, and so forth were studied. By extracting the vortex structures and exploring the flatness factor through a high-order correlation function of velocity derivative and wavelet analysis, it can be found that the small-scale vortex structures and small-scale intermittency in the FHIT are all inhibited due to the existence of the polymers. The extended self-similarity scaling law in the polymer solution flow shows no apparent difference from that in the Newtonian fluid flow at the currently simulated ranges of Reynolds and Weissenberg numbers.     

三维Kolmogorov流动弹性湍流直接数值模拟研究

黏弹性流体弹性湍流现象是在极低雷诺数下(惯性效应可以忽略),完全由流体弹性引起的复杂湍流现象,在此条件下牛顿流体处于层流流态.该现象不仅具有与惯性湍流类似的一些特征,还具有其独特的特性,此外,其诱发机理与惯性湍流完全不同.为了更深刻地认识弹性湍流特性及其产生机理,本文基于三维Kolmogorov流动采用直接数值模拟研究...     

Influence of polymer additives on turbulent energy cascading in forced homogeneous isotropic turbulence studied by direct numerical simulations

Direct numerical simulations(DNS) were performed for the forced homogeneous isotropic turbulence(FHIT) with/without polymer additives in order to elaborate the characteristics of the turbulent energy cascading influenced by drag-reducing effects.The finite elastic non-linear extensibility-Peterlin model(FENE-P) was used as the conformation tensor equation for the viscoelastic polymer solution.Detailed analyses of DNS data were carried out in this paper for the turbulence scaling law and the topological dynamics of FHIT as well as the important turbulent parameters,including turbulent kinetic energy spectra,enstrophy and strain,velocity structure function,small-scale intermittency,etc.A natural and straightforward definition for the drag reduction rate was also proposed for the drag-reducing FHIT based on the decrease degree of the turbulent kinetic energy.It was found that the turbulent energy cascading in the FHIT was greatly modified by the drag-reducing polymer additives.The enstrophy and the strain fields in the FHIT of the polymer solution were remarkably weakened as compared with their Newtonian counterparts.The small-scale vortices and the small-scale intermittency were all inhibited by the viscoelastic effects in the FHIT of the polymer solution.However,the scaling law in a fashion of extended self-similarity for the FHIT of the polymer solution,within the presently simulated range of Weissenberg numbers,had no distinct differences compared with that of the Newtonian fluid case.     

减阻剂水溶液内弹体入射超空泡特性实验研究

采用高速射弹方法实验研究了子弹入射水中及表面活性剂减阻剂水溶液中产生的超空泡形态特性。利用气动卷钉枪向水及质量分数为1×10~(-4)、5×10~(-4)和1×10~(-3)的三种不同浓度十六烷基三甲基氯化铵(CTAC)表面活性剂水溶液中射弹,同时用高速摄像机记录子弹的运动过程及产生的超空泡形态。实验结果表明,相同入射条件下子弹入射CTAC水溶液产生的超空泡比入射水中产生的超空泡的尺寸大,维持的时间更长,表明子弹在CTAC水溶液中受到的阻力更小。     

黏弹性流体纯弹性不稳定现象研究综述

近年来粘弹性流体流动的弹性不稳定性现象引起了越来越多学者的关注与研究,与牛顿流体惯性不稳定现象不同,这种现象是由粘弹性流体流动中的弹性应力和粘性力之间相互作用,使得在较低的雷诺数下即可产生复杂的流动分岔不稳定现象。当流动中的弹性数（表现为 Deborah 数 De 与Reynolds 数Re 的比值,其中 De 数定义为粘弹性流体的松弛时间和流动的特征时间的比值,Re 数表征流动中惯性力与粘性力之比）较大时,在 Re<相似文献