基于高速摄像实验的开放腔体圆柱壳入水空泡流动研究

基于高速摄像方法,针对入水空泡流动特征和机理,进行了开放腔体圆柱壳垂直入水实验研究.通过对实验现象的观测,发现开放腔体圆柱壳入水运动会形成波动流动和云化流动两种流动方式,结合影像数据,分别描述了两种流动状态下的空泡形态特征,并获得了空泡波动参数的变化规律;对比不同入水速度实验,分析了入水速度对入水空泡流动方式和流动参数的影响;依据流体力学基本理论,分析了入水空泡波动和云化现象的形成机理.结果表明:随入水速度增加,入水空泡依次呈现波动和云化两种流动状态,波动频率与入水速度无关,闭合发生时间随入水速度增加而减小,与Froude数呈线性关系;入水导致开放空腔内部气体涨缩,引起开放端压力场和速度场周期性扰动,空泡截面扩展程度出现差异,形成空泡波动现象;空泡闭合后尾部形成回射流,回射流触及空泡壁面引起壁面流动转捩,形成空泡云化现象.

An experimental study of water-entry cavitating flows of an end-closed cylindrical shell based on the high-speed imaging technology

The objective of this present study is to address the cavitating flow patterns and regimes in the water-entry cavity. For this purpose, an experimental study of vertical water-entry cavity of an end-closed cylindrical shell is investigated by using high-speed video cameras and visualization technique. According to the cavitating flows as observed in the experiments, two flow pattern forms of fluctuation cavitation and cloud cavitation are found around the body. A further insight into the characteristics of the cavity shape and the variation in the cavity fluctuations parameters is gained by analyzing the image data. Furthermore, the experiments at different impact velocities are conducted to analyze the effects of impact velocity on the flow patterns and parameters. Finally, the formation mechanisms of cavitation fluctuations and cavitation clouds are studied based on the basic theory of fluid mechanics. The obtained results show that the cavitation flow pattern form of fluctuation cavitation occurs under the impact velocity condition of low speed, and the cloud cavitation occurs under the velocity condition of high speed. As fluctuation cavitation, the maximal extension diameters of cavitation fluctuate periodically along the water depth, and the speeds of extension and shrinkage are both proportional to the extension diameter. The collapses are different for the two flow pattern cavitations, i.e., the fluctuation cavitation, which is of deep closure and closed at the trough of wave cavitation more than once, and the cloud cavitation, which falls off and forms the leading edge of the cylindrical shell. The frequency fluctuation is independent of the impact velocity, the corresponding pinch-off time decreases with increasing the impact velocity, and the pinch-off time decreases in a nearly linear relation with Froude number. The water poured to the cylindrical shell causes the internal air to compress and expand, and as a consequence of these effects, periodic disturbances of pressure distribution and velocity field occur around the leading edge of the cylindrical shell, then the extended intensity of the cross section of the cavity shows variation in this process, which can be defined as fluctuation cavitation pattern. It appears that the re-entrant flow after the pinch-off at the trailing edge of cavity, then the laminar-turbulent transition is waken as a consequence of the re-entrant flow moving upstream, which flow pattern involved in this structure occurs as cloud cavitation.