Unsteady Simulation of a Jet-in-crossflow

The present work represents the first attempt at studying the unsteadiness of jet-in-crossflows using the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations. In the past, numerical studies of jet-in-crossflows, with the exception of the few attempts of DNS and LES. are always carried out under the assumption that the flowfield is steady and symmetric about the jet center plane. Growing experimental evidence suggests that this flow is unsteady and periodic. The present work verified the existence of periodicity in jet-in-crossflows numerically. The numerically predicted Slrouhal number is in good agreement with experimental observations. In addition, the present simulation of the jet-in-crossflow were able to resolve the details of flow structures such as the oscillating wake structures, the jet shear-layer vortices, and the counter-rotating vortex pairs.