Abstract: | A submerged turbulent plane jet in shallow water impinging
vertically onto the free surface will produce a large-scale flapping
motion when the jet exit velocity is larger than a critical one. The
flapping phenomenon is verified in this paper through a large eddy
simulation where the free surface is modeled by volume of fluid
approach. The quantitative results for flapping jet are found to be
in good agreement with available experimental data in terms of mean
velocity, flapping-induced velocity and turbulence intensity.
Results show that the flapping motion is a new flow pattern with
characteristic flapping frequency for submerged turbulent plane
jets, the mean centerline velocity decay is considerably faster than
that of the stable impinging jet without flapping motion, and the
flapping-induced velocities are as important as the turbulent
fluctuations. |