Unsteady flow visualization at part-load conditions of a radial diffuser pump: by PIV and CFD

The present study provides flow visualization on complex internal flows in a radial diffuser pump under part-load conditions by using the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes code CFX-10 with Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) turbulence model. Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) measurements have been conducted to validate numerical results. The CFD results show good agreements with experimental ones on both the phase-averaged velocity fields and turbulence field. The detailed flow analysis shows that no separation occurs at 0.75Q_des although a low-velocity zone develops on the rear impeller suction side. Steady flow separations are observed on the impeller suction sides at 0.5Qdes but with different onsets and amounts. When reducing the flow rate to 0.25Q_des, CFD predicts different types of back flows in the impeller region, including steady leading edge separations, rotating vortex in the impeller wake region, and back flow on the impeller pressure side.     

低Reynolds数翼型绕流主动控制技术

在低Reynolds数条件下,翼型绕流的上表面边界层由于抗逆压梯度能力变差容易发生流动分离,从而形成长层流分离泡.分离泡通常是非定常的,会诱发边界层的转捩、再附并形成湍流边界层.这个过程会使翼型的气动性能急剧下降,并伴随着强非线性效应.转捩后形成的湍流边界层也会产生高摩擦阻力.针对这种现象,文章以NACA0012翼型为例,通过隐式大涡模拟研究了有效的主动控制方案.为了统一分离控制技术和湍流边界层减阻技术,研究了在平板或槽道湍流中取得较好控制效果的壁面垂向反向控制方案.首先利用隐式大涡模拟研究了低Reynolds数条件下NACA0012翼型绕流的流场特征.其次分析并验证了反向控制方案在分离区控制流场的可行性,发现反向控制在分离区的作用相当于基于流场信息的壁面抽吸控制,且控制具有实时性和高效性,控制抽吸了前缘的低能流体,使得翼型前缘附面层变薄,并增强了其抗逆压梯度的能力,较大程度提高了翼型的气动性能.最后在湍流边界层验证了其减阻控制效果,发现反向控制阻断了流向涡的法向输运,抑制了涡结构的发展,并减弱了猝发过程,使得湍流的高摩阻力得到了有效降低.      

Visualization of two-dimensional vortex flows in thin oscillating liquid films

A possibility of visualizing flows using random inhomogeneities of film thicknesses of different colors as particles for visualization is shown on an example of a vortex flow structure in an oscillating thin liquid film. Formation of vortex flows in a thin liquid film containing surface-active substances is investigated in experiments. The film is fixed horizontally along the edges of the cell vibrating in the vertical direction. Spatially homogeneous oscillations of the liquid film can excite different types of waves that generate two-dimensional vortex flows due to nonlinearity. We present results of experimental investigation of the structure of vortex flows in a thin film (0.5–10 μm) with rectangular boundaries. It has been revealed that, if the horizontal size of an inhomogeneous region is much smaller than the size of vortices, the inhomogeneities are transported by vortices and their interference pattern can be used for visualization of vortex flows.     

柔性旋涡发生器对翼型前缘分离的自适应控制

采用边长为10 mm的三角形柔性和刚性旋涡发生器,安装在二维NACA0018翼型上翼面前缘不同弦长处,用于控制翼型前缘分离流动.实验在低速直流式风洞中进行,以翼型弦长为特征长度的Reynolds数Re=1.1×105,采用单丝热线风速仪测量尾流速度剖面.分别研究柔性和刚性两种材料的三角形旋涡发生器对翼型前缘分离的控制效果.实验结果表明,与刚性旋涡发生器相比,柔性旋涡发生器利用来流能量实现自适应控制,使剪切层下移,从而明显抑制前缘分离.      

涡发生器对高超声速轴对称进气道外部流动的影响

采用三维CFD黏性模拟考察涡发生器对高超声速轴对称进气道外部流动的影响.针对前缘钝化半径0.8 mm和3.2 mm的轴对称进气道外部流场,以涡发生器高度与当地位移边界层厚度比值为影响参数,考察流场结构与性能参数的影响规律.结果表明,涡发生器产生的干扰波系使得前缘激波向外偏移,下游近壁面流动与主流区出现明显的交换,下游流动出现明显的展向非均匀性.涡发生器对流动的影响沿流向逐渐减弱.在气流压缩性能方面,涡发生器下游压比、动压比沿流向开始增大,随后逐渐恢复到无涡发生器工况;Mach数、总压恢复系数开始降低,随后逐渐向无涡发生器工况趋近.涡发生器高度与当地位移边界层厚度的比值h可作为衡量其影响的重要参数.当h≤1.5时,进气道流场结构、性能参数的变化几乎可忽略,h≤3.0时进气道入口处性能参数几乎能够恢复到无涡发生器工况.      

Evaluation of shear and recirculation in centrifugal artificial heart by flow visualization

A centrifugal blood pump for artificial heart has to have low hemolysis and no thrombus formation. For finding and removing the fluid dynamic causes of the above mentioned phenomena, flow visualization was utilized, as flow visualization can identify the high shear and stagnation locations which relate to hemolysis and thrombus formation respectively. In the present paper, general fluid dynamic characteristics of centrifugal blood pumps will be extracted, through analyzing four typical centrifugal pumps with flow visualization technique. Finding shear in the volute and diffuser regions, confirming vortex formation at washout holes, and quantitative analysis of the flow in the inlet regions are the shown examples. The obtained results correspond well to hemolysis tests, which proves that flow visualization is a useful tool in developing and analyzing blood pumps for artificial hearts.     

Investigation of turbulence models for computation of swirling flows

Different turbulence models were studied in application to calculation of swirling flows. The differential models of turbulent viscosity considering streamline curvature and the method of detached eddy simulation were used. Weakly and strongly swirling flows were considered at the example of concentrated vortex in a tube, swirling flow in a diffuser, and vortex breakdown through an abrupt expansion. The RANS models with correction to flow swirling represented well the experimental data for the weakly swirling flows. In case of strongly swirling flows, it was more correct to use the method of detached eddy simulation.     

Fluid flow visualization by three-dimensionally reconstructed tracer path lines

The development of a measurement system for the visualization, topological classification and quantitative analysis of complex flows in large-scale wind tunnel experiments is described. A new approach is sought whereby the topological features of the flow, e.g. stream lines, separation and reattachment regions, stagnation points and vortex lines are extracted directly and are preferably visualized in real-time in a virtual wind tunnel environment. The system is based on a stereo arrangement of two CCD cameras. A frame rate of 120 f/s allows measurements at high flow velocities. Helium filled soap bubbles are used as tracer particles. The present paper describes a simple camera calibration procedure for large measurement environments and examines the problem of fast and accurate reconstruction of path lines in three dimensions, which will enable true three-dimensional and time-resolved fluid flow visualization. Experimentally obtained visualization results for a free-stream flow, flow around a circular plate and flow over a delta wing are presented.     

Visualization of turbulent flow around a sphere at subcritical reynolds numbers

The shear layer evolution and turbulent structure of near-wake behind a sphere atRe= 11,000 and 5,300 were investigated using a smoke-wire visualization method. A laminar flow separation was found to occur near the equator. The smooth laminar shear layers appeared to be axisymmetrically stable to the downstream location of aboutx/d=1.0 atRe=11,000 andx/d= 1.7∼1.8 atRe=5,300, respectively. At Re=11,000, the vortex ring-shaped protrusions were observed with the onset of shear layer instability. Moreover, the transition from laminar to turbulence in the separated flow region occurred earlier at the hiher Reynolds number ofRe=11,000 than atRe=5,300. The PIV measurements in the streamwise and cross-sectional planes atRe=11,000 clearly revealed the turbulent structures of the sphere wake such as recirculating flow, shear layer instability, vortex roll-up, and small-scale turbulent eddies.     

湍流模型在内流流场数值模拟中的应用

本文将Spalart-Allmaras湍流模型方程推导为守恒形式,并应用于内流湍流流场计算.采用此-方程湍流模型分别对扩压器流场以及NASA 67转子流场进行了数值模拟.结果表明常用在外流计算中的Spalart-Allmaras湍流模型在内流计算中仍具有较高的精度、数值稳定性和效率.     

Characterization of a diffuser flow by time-resolved PIV

Computational fluid dynamics is extensively used in the design methodology of medical devices. However, for such applications, the predictive capabilities of CFD codes are highly dependent upon geometry, which most of the time is extremely complex, and flow conditions. The study concerns a ventricular assist device (VAD) where the exit flow, generated through a diffuser, is of particular importance for blood damage predictions. The difficulty to predict the flow lies in the fact that the Reynolds number range includes the transition Reynolds number of the separated diffuser flow as well as the critical Reynolds number of pipe flows. In order to choose the appropriate CFD methodology in terms of flow hypothesis and turbulence model, an experimental setup of the diffuser was built to run PIV velocity measurements and to analyze the flow pattern with the influence of Reynolds number. The flow is described with mean and variance values of the in-plane velocity components and timeresolved results are used to visualize the development of unsteady phenomena introduced in the diffuser separated region. An optimal filter is also used to remove noise in measured velocity vector fields.     

高超声速平板边界层/圆柱粗糙元非定常干扰

以高超声速表面湍流控制为应用背景,平板/粗糙元干扰流动为模型,采用大涡模拟方法研究粗糙元流场干扰作用机理.分析粗糙元外形特征对于流动稳定性影响,给出其引起的流动表面参数的变化规律.结果显示超声速边界层在粗糙元作用下产生强逆压梯度并发生分离,粗糙元高度对高位自由剪切层失稳有明显影响,低粗糙元干扰下游流动稳定性,而高粗糙元剪切层发生流向失稳,形成涡串结构;同时粗糙元干扰导致下游摩阻和热流系数较平板略低,可能应用在进气道降热和减阻中.     

向心透平级叶轮内三维复杂流动的数值研究

对向心透平叶轮内部复杂流动在级环境下进行了全三维黏性数值模拟,结合拓扑学原理分析了设计工况和非设计工况下其内流动分离及各种涡系发展的演变过程,初步建立了向心透平叶轮内的旋涡模型,阐述了流动损失的形成机理。研究表明:向心透平叶轮内部涡系与轴流式透平存在较大差别,且流动分离及涡系主要集中在吸力面侧;设计工况下向心透平叶轮内的主要旋涡包括马蹄涡、通道涡及泄漏涡,其主要表现为通道涡与泄漏涡相互影响和掺混,是主要损失的形成原因;非设计工况下,主流在叶轮叶片前缘处发生大范围的分离及回流,造成了较大的能量损失,但二次流损失所占比例较小。     

Visualization of low Reynolds boundary-driven cavity flows in thin liquid shells

Abstract  

Classic examples of low-Reynolds recirculating cavity flows are typically generated from lid-driven boundary motion at a solid–fluid interface, or alternatively may result from shear flow over cavity openings. Here, we are interested in an original family of boundary-driven cavity flows occurring, in contrast to classic setups, at fluid–fluid interfaces. Particle image velocimetry (PIV) is used to investigate the structure of internal convective flows observed in thin liquid shells. Under the specific configuration investigated, the soap bubble’s liquid shell is in fact in motion and exhibits sporadic local “bursts”. These bursts induce transient flow motion within the cavity of order Re ∼ O(1). The combination of PIV and proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) is used to extract dominant flow structures present within bubble cavities. Next, we show that thermally induced Marangoni flows in the liquid shell can lead to forced, (quasi) steady-state, internal recirculating flows. The present findings illustrate a novel example of low-Reynolds boundary-driven cavity flows.     

Observation of vortex packets in direct numerical simulation of fully turbulent channel flow

A number of experimental studies have inferred the existence of packets of inclined, hairpinlike vortices in wall turbulence on the basis of observations made in two-dimensional x−y planes using visualization and particle image velocimetry (PIV). However, there are very few observations of hairpins in existing three-dimensional studies made using direct numerical simulation (DNS), and no such study claims to have revealed packets. We demonstrate, for the first time, the existence of hairpin vortex packets in DNS of turbulent flow. The vortex packet structure found in the present study at low Reynolds number,Re _t=300, is consistent with and substantiates the observations and the results from twodimensional PIV measurements at higher Reynolds numbers in channel, pipe and boundary layer flows. Thus, the evidence supports the view that vortex packets are a universal feature of wall turbulence, independent of effects due to boundary layer trips or critical conditions in the aforementioned numerical studies. Visualization of the DNS velocity field and vortices also shows the close association of hairpin packets with long low-momentum streaks and the regions of high Reynolds shear stress.     

Plasma blob generation due to cooperative elliptic instability

Using fast-camera measurements the generation mechanism of plasma blobs is investigated in the linear device CSDX. During the ejection of plasma blobs the plasma is dominated by an m=1 mode, which is a counterrotating vortex pair. These flows are known to be subject to the cooperative elliptic instability, which is characterized by a cooperative disturbance of the vortex cores and results in a three-dimensional breakdown of two-dimensional flows. The first experimental evidence of a cooperative elliptic instability preceding the blob-ejection is provided in terms of the qualitative evolution of the vortex geometries and internal wave patterns.     

光腔与扩压器化学反应流场优化数值模拟

氧碘化学激光器(COIL)在化学反应条件下,由于光腔及扩压器的气流通道内存在残余化学反应放热,从而导致"热堵"现象发生,影响了扩压器的正常启动及光腔内超声速流场的流动品质。采用数值模拟方法对COIL光腔与超声速扩压器流道内的化学反应流场进行研究,对超声速扩压器插入段的长度、楔形体的数量级扩散段长度对化学反应流场的影响进行研究。数值模拟结果表明:通过优化插入段及楔形体长度、取消扩压器侧壁的半楔形体,改善了因化学反应放热对光腔及扩压器流场造成的不利影响。优化后,光腔内的流动不再受气流分离产生的斜激波的影响,扩压器二喉道内的分离现象消失,扩压器壁面的分离区减小,出口流动更加均匀,"热堵塞"现象消失。化学反应条件下的气流总压损失比冷流时提高约15%,光腔与扩压器的总压恢复系数为0.426,进出口的静压比为3.75,比优化前提高了约25%。     

Panoramic diagnostics of shear stresses on the channel wall with a step using the liquid crystals

Measurements results on the shear stresses of surface friction by means of thin-film coatings based on cholesteric liquid crystals and specialized software for digital processing of experimental video are presented in the paper. The calibration dependencies of shear stress relative to the hue and azimuth angle as well as shear stress spatial distribution at subsonic turbulent flow (V _∝ = 84 m/s) around a step, trapezoidal in plane (Reynolds number calculated for step height h, Re _h = 2.57?10⁴), with a base angle of 46° were derived for two geometries of experiment. The experiments demonstrated high sensitivity of liquid crystals to rearrangement of the near-wall flow structure and possibility to obtain quantitative data about mean shear stress levels.     

Flow visualization in a low-density plasma channel

A schlieren system and surface-stress-sensitive film system were developed for a plasma channel which posed unique challenges for flow visualization because of the combination of low air density and the presence of plasma discharges. Temperature-sensitive paint and direct-current discharge were also applied to flow visualization. Three pulsed schlieren light sources were evaluated. A light-emitting diode (LED), a xenon Nanopulser^TM and laser breakdown, were tested on identical flowfields. The LED provided excellent illumination, with pulses ranging from μs to continuous. The Nanopulser^TM provided excellent, short-duration images, although illumination varied from shot-to-shot. Laser-breakdown provided short-duration, incoherent illumination that was constant from pulse-to-pulse. The surface-stress-sensitive film was applied to surface flow visualization. A low-modulus elastomer doped with a luminescent dye was used to visualize the surface shear stress and pressure field in laminar shock boundary layer interactions. Intensity distributions from the dye were imaged to interrogate the surface pressure gradients. Displacement of surface markers provided shear information. Results showed the presence of Görtler vortices in the reattaching shear flow. Görtler vortices were also evident in temperature-sensitive paint images and in the plasma discharge glow. These vortices were evident in the intensity images from the elastomer, which could be related to the surface pressure gradient, but were not readily evident in surface shear measurements.     

Experimental study of the Taylor bubbles shear stress in an upward flow in a vertical tube

The modification of electrodiffusional method of the wall shear stress measurements is applied for registration of the Taylor bubble shear stress in an upward liquid flow. Time realization of shear is considered as a structure frozen into the flow, which moves together with a bubble. Experiments were carried out in laminar and transitional liquid flows. The wall shear stress in the liquid film around bubble averaged over the tube perimeter is presented for different flow Reynolds numbers and different lengths of the bubble.