Acoustics and dynamics of coaxial interacting vortex rings
Authors:
Karim Shariff
Anthony Leonard
Norman J. Zabusky
Joel H. Ferziger
Affiliation:
NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
California Institute of Technology., Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Abstract:
Using a contour dynamics method for inviscid axisymmetric flow we examine the effects of core deformation on the dynamics and acoustic signatures of coaxial interacting vortex rings. Both “passage” and “collision” (head-on) interactions are studied for initially identical vortices. Good correspondence with experiments is obtained. A simple model which retains only the elliptic degree of freedom in the core shape is used to explain some of the calculated features.