Mass and momentum transport in the near field of swirling turbulent jets. Effect of swirl rate

Local transport of the flow momentum and scalar admixture in the near-field of turbulent swirling jets (Re = 5,000) has been investigated by using a combination of the particle image velocimetry and planar laser-induced fluorescence methods. Advection and turbulent and molecular diffusions are evaluated based on the measured distributions of the mean velocity and concentration and the Reynolds stresses and fluxes. As has been quantified from the data, the flow swirl intensifies the entrainment of the surrounding fluid and promotes mass and momentum exchange in the outer mixing layer. A superimposed swirl results in the appearance of a wake/recirculation region at the jet axis and, consequently, the formation of an inner shear layer. In contrast to the scalar admixture, the momentum exchange in the inner shear layer is found to be strongly intensified by the swirl. For the jet with the highest considered swirl rate, a substantial portion of the surrounding fluid is found to enter the unsteady central recirculation zone, where it mixes with the jet that is issued from the nozzle. The contribution of the coherent velocity fluctuations, which are induced by large-scale vortex structures, to the turbulent transport has been evaluated based on triple decomposition, which was based on proper orthogonal decomposition analysis of the velocity data sets. For the considered domain of the jet with the highest swirl rate and vortex breakdown, the contributions of detected helical vortex structures, inducing pressing vortex core, to the radial fluxes of the flow momentum and the scalar admixture are found to locally exceed 65% and 80%, respectively.     

Direct numerical simulation of turbulent heat transfer over fully resolved anisotropic porous structures

Lattice Boltzmann direct numerical simulations of turbulent heat transfer over and inside anisotropic porous media are performed. This study considers turbulent plane channel flows whose bottom walls are made from the porous media at the bulk Reynolds number of 2900 with isothermal and conjugate heat transfer wall conditions. Four different porous walls are considered. They are walls with only the wall-normal permeability, with the wall-normal and spanwise permeabilities, with the wall-normal and streamwise permeabilities, and with the isotropic wall-normal, spanwise and streamwise permeabilities. The porosity of the porous walls ranges from 0.6 to 0.8. Discussions on the effects of the anisotropic permeability on turbulent thermal fields are carried out by the instantaneous flow visualizations and the statistical quantities. In particular, temperature fluctuations, turbulent and dispersion heat fluxes are examined both inside and outside the porous walls. Finally, the heat transfer performance is discussed considering the effects of the anisotropic permeability.     

An Analysis of Turbulent Motions In and Around a Differentially Forced Density Interface

The Rapid-Distortion-Theory-based analysis proposed by Fernando and Hunt [1] is extended to study the nature of turbulence in and around a density interface sandwiched between turbulent layers with dissimilar properties. It is shown that interfacial motions consist of low-frequency, resonantly excited, nonlinear internal waves and high-frequency, linear internal waves driven by background turbulence. Based on the assumptions that (i) all resonant waves and some nonresonant waves having frequencies close to the resonant frequencies grow rapidly, break, and cause interfacial mixing, (ii) the spectral amplitude of the vertical velocity in the wave-breaking regime is constant, and (iii) kinetic energy is equipartitioned between linear and nonlinear breaking wave regimes, the r.m.s. vertical velocity at the interface and the turbulent kinetic energy flux into the interface are calculated. The migration velocity of the interface is calculated using the additional assumption that the buoyancy flux into a given turbulent layer is a fixed fraction of the turbulent kinetic energy flux supplied to the interface by the same layer. The calculations are found to be in good agreement with the entrainment data obtained in previous laboratory experiments in the parameter regime where the interface is dominated by internal wave dynamics. Received 23 July 1997 and accepted 8 January 1999     

Passive Scalar Transport in a Turbulent Mixing Layer

This paper describes a combined experimental and numerical study of scalar transport in spatially developing, two-stream, turbulent mixing layers with velocity ratios of approximately 2:1. The experimental mixing layer was created by an S-shaped splitter plate mounted in a wind tunnel, and the concentration field was realized by releasing incense smoke into the high-speed side boundary layer above the splitter plate. Simultaneous measurements of the velocity and concentration fields were performed. A 12-sensor hot-wire probe was used to measure the velocity field and its gradients, while the concentration field was recorded with digital photographs of the laser-illuminated smoke. In parallel, a large-eddy simulation (LES) of the spatially developing mixing layer was carried out. Auxiliary turbulent boundary layer LES were used to provide high quality inflow boundary conditions for the velocity and concentration fields. By synchronizing the velocity and concentration measurements, concentration fluxes were also determined. Octant analysis based on the sign combinations of the velocity and concentration fuctuations was performed on the flux data to investigate the scalar transport processes. It was found that octants compatible with mean gradient transport of the scalar contribute most to the scalar fluxes. Conditional planar averages of scalar and momentum fluxes were obtained to determine their spatial distribution with respect to the organized roller and rib vortices of the mixing layer, and distinct patterns were observed. The simulation provided additional insight about the flow and scalar flux distribution topology. This topology was found to be partially compatible with simple models of roller and rib vortices that transport the scalar in a mean gradient sense.     

Turbulent mixed convection of heat and water vapor transfers in a two-dimensional vegetation canopy

The present study consists in a numerical investigation of turbulent mixed-convection of heat and water vapor transfers inside two-dimensional (2-D) vegetation canopy, in the surrounding atmosphere and in a wet underground. The time-averaged Navier-Stokes equations are used to characterize the flow field surrounding the canopy and within it. Reynolds shear stresses are calculated using the eddy turbulence model and the Prandtl mixing length. The governing equations are solved numerically using an implicit finite difference method and Thomas algorithm. The present model is used for the determination of the micro climatic profiles such as streamlines, isotherms and iso-concentration. Special emphasis is laid on the systematic analysis of the total evaporation rate (evapotranspiration), the local and average heat fluxes, the Nusselt and Sherwood numbers. The effects of Leaf Area Density distribution, the canopy stomata regulation, as well as the atmospheric forcing conditions on the transfers, are presented and analysed. The results show that buoyancy force caused by properties variation reduces the local heat and mass transfer coefficients, and that this reduction increases at lower wind velocities.     

稳定分层流动中湍流特性的研究综述

本文总结了近60 年来分层流动中湍流特性研究的成果. 主要从两个方面进行了综述:(1) 分层流动中湍流场的演变和混合. 在这方面主要分析稳定分层对湍流混合和湍流结构的影响, 以及混合层内湍流结构的特性和混合层的演化规律. (2) 分层流动中湍流的扩散和输运. 动量和标量的逆梯度输运特性是分层湍流研究的一个重要方向;分析分层对湍流扩散的影响. 并指出了一些值得今后进一步研究的方向.     

Development of turbulent mixing in a fluid

The development of turbulent mixing produced by a linear source in a flat cell is studied with dyes and a laser thermal marker. The velocity field outside the mixing region is determined. The agreement of region size determined by dye diffusion and thermal marker deformation is shown.Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 2, pp. 91–95, March–April, 1973.     

Vertical momentum transfer by weakly nonlinear inertia-gravity internalwaves

Free inertia-gravity internal waves in a plane-parallel flow are considered in the Boussinesq approximation with account of the horizontal turbulent viscosity and diffusion. The dispersion relation and the wave decay rate are derived in the linear approximation. The effect of critical layers, in which the wave frequency with the Doppler shift is equal to the inertial frequency, on the dispersion curves is considered. It is shown that the dispersion curves are cut off in the low-frequency domain due to the critical layers mentioned above. The verticalwave momentum fluxes are nonzero and can be greater than the corresponding turbulent fluxes. It is shown that the Stokes drift velocity component transverse to the direction of propagation of the wave is nonzero with account of the turbulent viscosity and diffusion.     

Turbulent sediment transport using momentum balance — The strong turbulence approximation

The turbulent flow of a sediment-fluid mixture near a flat bottom is studied. An equation is derived expressing the balance between the gravitational force on the sediment and the turbulent sediment momentum flux. A mixing length theory is used to model the turbulent momentum flux, with the mixing lengths assumed proportional to the distance from the bottom. The ratio of the sediment momentum mixing length to the mixture momentum mixing length is assumed to be a universal constant. An approximate solution for the mean sediment flux profile is derived for situations where the turbulent strength near the bottom dominates the gravitational effects there. The resulting concentration profile is constant near the bottom and drops off rapidly above a certain predicted depth.     

Measurements on supersonic free jets

Summary An experimental study of round supersonic air jets discharging into quiescent air is described. The initial stagnation enthalpy of the jets was equal to that of the atmosphere. Most of the experiments concerned a fully expanded jet with initial Mach number M _I =1.74. From the experimental results the turbulent Prandtl number and the turbulent coefficient of momentum transfer could be calculated in a large part of the mixing zone of the jets. A mixing parameter K has been introduced and calculated for the jets. The results of this investigation are compared with those obtained for low-speed jets.     

Convergence acceleration of segregated algorithms using dynamic tuning additive correction multigrid strategy

A convergence acceleration method based on an additive correction multigrid–SIMPLEC (ACM‐S) algorithm with dynamic tuning of the relaxation factors is presented. In the ACM‐S method, the coarse grid velocity correction components obtained from the mass conservation (velocity potential) correction equation are included into the fine grid momentum equations before the coarse grid momentum correction equations are formed using the additive correction methodology. Therefore, the coupling between the momentum and mass conservation equations is obtained on the coarse grid, while maintaining the segregated structure of the single grid algorithm. This allows the use of the same solver (smoother) on the coarse grid. For turbulent flows with heat transfer, additional scalar equations are solved outside of the momentum–mass conservation equations loop. The convergence of the additional scalar equations is accelerated using a dynamic tuning of the relaxation factors. Both a relative error (RE) scheme and a local Reynolds/Peclet (ER/P) relaxation scheme methods are used. These methodologies are tested for laminar isothermal flows and turbulent flows with heat transfer over geometrically complex two‐ and three‐dimensional configurations. Savings up to 57% in CPU time are obtained for complex geometric domains representative of practical engineering problems. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Pitot pressures of correctly-expanded and underexpanded free jets from axisymmetric supersonic nozzles

The structures of the axisymmetric free jets from supersonic nozzles with the exit Mach numbers of 1.5 and 2.0 are studied with special attention to the decay of the Pitot pressures downstream of the Mach disk. The Pitot pressure probe and schlieren method are used in the experiments to diagnose the flowfield. A TVD numerical method is also applied to the Euler equations, and the computed jet structures are compared with experiments. In the underexpanded jet, the experimentally obtained Pitot pressure near the jet centerline is found to substantially recover downstream of the Mach disk. By comparing the numerical computation, this phenomenon is thought to be caused by the turbulent momentum transfer to the central region from the region outside the slip line where the stagnation pressure loss is small.     

PIV study of large-scale flow organisation in slot jets

The paper reports on particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements in turbulent slot jets bounded by two solid walls with the separation distance smaller than the jet width (5–40%). In the far-field such jets are known to manifest features of quasi-two dimensional, two component turbulence. Stereoscopic and tomographic PIV systems were used to analyse local flows. Proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) was applied to extract coherent modes of the velocity fluctuations. The measurements were performed both in the initial region close to the nozzle exit and in the far fields of the developed turbulent slot jets for Re ⩾ 10,000. A POD analysis in the initial region indicates a correlation between quasi-2D vortices rolled-up in the shear layer and local flows in cross-stream planes. While the near-field turbulence shows full 3D features, the wall-normal velocity fluctuations day out gradually due to strong wall-damping resulting in an almost two-component turbulence. On the other hand, the longitudinal vortex rolls take over to act as the main agents in wall-normal and spanwise mixing and momentum transfer. The quantitative analysis indicates that the jet meandering amplitude was aperiodically modulated when arrangement of the large-scale quasi-2D vortices changed between asymmetric and symmetric pattern relatively to the jet axis. The paper shows that the dynamics of turbulent slot jets are more complex than those of 2D, plane and rectangular 3D jets. In particular, the detected secondary longitudinal vortex filaments and meandering modulation is expected to be important for turbulent transport and mixing in slot jets. This issue requires further investigations.     

Determination of heat transfer coefficients on the surfaces of plastic tubes

 The paper discusses the statistical steady heat and momentum transfer problem in the inlet section of the plastic tubes. The modified two equation k–ɛ turbulent model utilizing variability of turbulent Prandtl number, Pr_t, was used for the analysis. Considering the thermophysical anisotropy of the tube material, a balance of local temperatures and local heat fluxes on the boundary between the fluid and the tube wall was assumed (conjugate heat transfer problem). The thermal boundary condition on the external surface of the tube (temperature) measured in the experiment was taken into account. The boundary problem described was solved by the control volume method. The values of the parameters of Pr and Re obtained from the experiments were included in the numerical calculations. Based on the results obtained, profiles of mean fluid temperatures, local Nusselt numbers on the internal and external surface of the tube, and profiles of temperatures on the internal surface of the tube and inside of the tube wall were determined. The analysis shows that changes in Pr_tand turbulence intensity, Tu, influence the local values of Nusselt numbers, and it also shows that the results for the local Nusselt numbers inside the tube obtained from numerical calculations are of great accuracy in comparison with results published in the available literature. Received on 11 June 2001     

Subsonic Radiation Gas Dynamics in a Laser Plasma Generator Channel

The radiation gasdynamic processes in the channel of an air laser plasma generator operating at atmospheric pressure are analyzed. In the multigroup approximation a numerical radiation gasdynamic model is formulated on the basis of the equations of motion of a viscous heat-conducting gas and the selective thermal radiation transport equation. Laminar and turbulent subsonic generator operation regimes are considered.For the purpose of approximately describing the turbulent gas and plasma mixing the Navier-Stokes equations averaged after Reynolds and the k-ε turbulence model are used. The problem is solved in the time-dependent two-dimensional axisymmetric formulation.Strong radiation-gasdynamic interaction regimes are investigated. In these regimes the energy losses due to radiation from the high-temperature region of the laser plasma and the absorption of its thermal self-radiation by the surrounding plasma and gas layers (radiation reabsorption) appreciably affect the gasdynamic flow structure. Two methods of integrating the selective thermal radiation transport equation in the generator channel are discussed. In one of these the thermal radiation transport is calculated inside the heated volume and in the other the radiation heat fluxes are calculated on the surfaces bounding the volume. The results of calculating the spectral and integral radiation heat fluxes on the inner surface of the generator are given.__________Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Academii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 3, 2005, pp. 126–143.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Surzhikov.     

On the mixing of axi-symmetric ducted jets

Because of practical application to jet pumps, ejectors, furnaces and similar devices, the turbulent discharge of a round jet into a coaxial duct and the mixing patterns in the various regions into which the flow may be divided, are of considerable interest. In this paper the mixing of an incompressible jet with a similar fluid in a cylindrical tube is considered up to the plane which marks the disappearance of potential flow. Under the assumption of similarity of velocity profile and with neglect of the wall boundary layer and nozzle wake, the continuity and momentum equations, in integral form, are solved for the velocities and mixing region radii at any given section. Prandtl's momentum transfer hypothesis may be used to determine the dependence of these on distance downstream. By examining the various flow regimes in detail this analysis is formally able to cover ratios of primary to secondary flow velocities of from one to infinity and, similarly, all ratios of duct to nozzle diameters, thereby extending earlier investigations. It also corrects work on similar basis in which inappropriate linearisations were made. The ‘exact’ results constitute a basis from which extension to include additional effects may be made.     

Similarity laws of the wind wave and the coupling process of the air and water turbulent boundary layers

The statistical properties of growing wind waves are known to obey certain self-similarity laws. One of these is expressed as the -power law relation between the significant wave-height and the significant wave period in nondimensional forms. Recent experiments on turbulence above and below laboratory wind waves indicate that both the air and the water layers have a structure which is similar to that of the turbulent boundary layer over a rough solid wall. The continuity of the momentum flux through the air and water boundary layers combined with the -power law of wind waves means that all the characteristic velocities related to the air-water boundary process are proportional to one another. Our laboratory experimental data on the several characteristic variables concerned support this picture. The state of local equilibrium as expressed by the -power law is thought to be brought about by the “breaking adjustment of the wind wave” which is required by the overall continuity of the velocity and the momentum flux across a thin surface layer. The above proportionality of the characteristic velocities provides a physical basis for the observed friction velocity scaling of the ocean mixed layer.     

Experimental study of stratified jet by simultaneous measurements of velocity and density fields

Stratified flows with small density difference commonly exist in geophysical and engineering applications, which often involve interaction of turbulence and buoyancy effect. A combined particle image velocimetry (PIV) and planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) system is developed to measure the velocity and density fields in a dense jet discharged horizontally into a tank filled with light fluid. The illumination of PIV particles and excitation of PLIF dye are achieved by a dual-head pulsed Nd:YAG laser and two CCD cameras with a set of optical filters. The procedure for matching refractive indexes of two fluids and calibration of the combined system are presented, as well as a quantitative analysis of the measurement uncertainties. The flow structures and mixing dynamics within the central vertical plane are studied by examining the averaged parameters, turbulent kinetic energy budget, and modeling of momentum flux and buoyancy flux. At downstream, profiles of velocity and density display strong asymmetry with respect to its center. This is attributed to the fact that stable stratification reduces mixing and unstable stratification enhances mixing. In stable stratification region, most of turbulence production is consumed by mean-flow convection, whereas in unstable stratification region, turbulence production is nearly balanced by viscous dissipation. Experimental data also indicate that at downstream locations, mixing length model performs better in mixing zone of stable stratification regions, whereas in other regions, eddy viscosity/diffusivity models with static model coefficients represent effectively momentum and buoyancy flux terms. The measured turbulent Prandtl number displays strong spatial variation in the stratified jet.