Non-stationary effects in hypersonic nonuniform dusty-gas flow past a blunt body

In the framework of the two-fluid model, a hypersonic flow of a nonuniform dusty gas with low inertial (non-depositing) particles around a blunt body is considered. The particle mass concentration is assumed to be small, so that the effect of particles on the carrier phase is significant only inside the boundary layer where the particles accumulate. Stepshaped and harmonic nonuniformities of the particle concentration ahead of the bow shock wave are considered and the corresponding nonstationary distributions of the particle concentration in the shock layer are studied. On the basis of numerical study of nonstationary two-phase boundary layer equations derived by the matched asymptotic expansion method, the effects of free-stream particle concentration nonuniformities on the thermal flux, and the friction coefficient in the neighborhood of stagnation point are investigated, in particular, the most “dangerous” nonuniformity periods are found. The project supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project No. 96-01-00313) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (joint RFBR-NSFC grant No. 96-01-00017c)     

Instability of a horizontal plane-channel flow of a dilute suspension

The stability of a horizontal plane-channel flow of a dilute suspension is studied theoretically. It is shown that the mechanism of action of the sedimenting particles on the flow stability parameters is equivalent to the effect of a distributed flow stratification and is attributable to the vertical nonuniformity of the body force induced by the excess weight of the sedimenting particles. A strong dependence of the disturbance growth rate on the location of the interface between the suspension and the pure liquid is detected.     

Calculation of dusty-gas flow in an inertial scrubber

The problem of dusty-gas flow in a conical inertial scrubber is solved. For various design parameters of the scrubber grid (cascade of plates) the dust passage coefficients are calculated. An approximate formula for the dust passage coefficient is obtained.Kazan'. Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 6, pp. 62–68, November–December, 1996.     

Investigation of the stability of a plane-channel suspension flow with account for finite particle volume fraction

Within the framework of the two-fluid approach, a variant of a heterogeneous-medium model which takes into account a finite volume fraction of the inclusions and a small but finite phase velocity slip is proposed. The interphase momentum exchange is described by the Stokes force with the Brinkman correction for the finite particle volume fraction. The suspension viscosity depends on the particle volume fraction in accordance with the Einstein formula. Within the framework of the model constructed, a formulation of the problem of linear stability of plane-parallel two-phase flows is proposed. As an example, the stability of a channel suspension flow is considered. The system of equations for small disturbances with the boundary conditions is reduced to an eigenvalue problem for a fourth-order ordinary differential equation. Using the orthogonalization method, the dependence of the critical Reynolds number on the governing nondimensional parameters of the problem is studied numerically. It is shown that taking a finite volume fraction of the inclusions into account significantly affects the laminar-turbulent transition limit.     

Effect of nonuniform accommodation coefficient distribution on the couette flow

The Couette flow is considered for surfaces with nonuniformly distributed energy accommodation coefficients α. It is shown that at Knudsen numbers greater or of the order of unity heat fluxes and viscous stresses can be considerably optimized by varying the surface distribution of α at a fixed integral value. At the same time, for Kn ≪ 1 the flows with nonuniformly distributed α are similar with the flow with a constant accommodation coefficient equal to its mean value.     

Effect of heat transfer on the plane-channel poiseuille flow of a thermo-viscous fluid

A steady-state plane channel flow of viscous incompressible fluid with no-slip and heat transfer boundary conditions is considered. The flow is induced by a fixed pressure difference and the fluid viscosity depends on the temperature in accordance with a power law. It is shown numerically that the dependence of the Peclet number on the nondimensional pressure difference is not single-valued. An investigation of the solution’s dependence on the Biot number shows that for Biot numbers greater than unity the velocity profile has a point of inflection. Perm’. Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 2, pp. 75–80, March–April, 2000. The work received financial support from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project N97-01-00063).     

Supersonic nonuniform flow over a trapezoidal profile

Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 3, pp. 180–183, May–June, 1990.     

Stability of a spanwise nonuniform boundary layer flow

The linear stability of a boundary layer flow with a spanwise-periodic nonuniformity in the velocity profile is investigated. This flow can be considered as a model of a streaky structure occurring in the boundary layer at a high freestream turbulence level. It is shown that for a small nonuniformity amplitude symmetric modes similar to Tollmien-Schlichting waves are the most unstable. At higher nonuniformity amplitudes, antisymmetric modes, qualitatively different from Tollmien-Schlichting waves and having a larger phase velocity, are the most amplified. Moscow. Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 6, pp. 54–63, November–December, 1998. The study was carried out with the support of the International Scientific and Technical Center (project No. 199-95) and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project No. 95-01-01201a).     

Vorticity jump across a shock in nonuniform flow

A new relation is derived for the vorticity just downstream of a shock wave when the upstream flow is nonuniform. Aside from the vorticity contribution from a curved shock, there is an amplified upstream vorticity contribution and terms associated with upstream Mach number and stagnation enthalpy gradients, along the shock, that may be present even if the upstream flow is irrotational.     

Magnetoacoustic shock waves in a nonuniform plasma flow

Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 4, pp. 13–19, July–August, 1991.     

Nonlinear deformation of a tubular helix interacting with a nonuniform internal flow of liquid

Kiev Institute of Construction Engineering. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 17–24, April, 1991.     

Pressure waves in a tube filled with a bubbly mixture with a nonuniform cross-sectional bubble distribution

The evolution of pressure waves in a tube filled with a gas-liquid medium with a stepped cross-sectional bubble distribution is investigated. The calculations are compared with experimental data. It is shown that in the case of a nonuniform bubble distribution, due to the appearance of transverse flows, the pressure pulse is damped faster than for a uniform distribution. The interaction of pressure waves with a bubble cluster in a tube filled with liquid is also analyzed.     

Characterization of the spatial distribution state of particles transported by a turbulent gas flow

A concept is presented for the characterization of the spatial arrangement of particles dispersed in fluids. Exact knowledge of the spatial distribution state of dispersed phases is very useful for many chemical engineering processes. A suitable characterization is done by means of computing the frequency distributions of distances between neighbouring particles. The computation is accomplished on the basis of data obtained by hologram evaluation. Measurements were conducted via pulsed-laser holography. The examples described concern collectives of water droplets and glass spheres transported by a turbulent gas flow through a pipe. The experimental results are compared with theoretically obtained frequency distributions of particle distances for particles arranged in space purely at random.     

Effect of viscosity of the wave process in a nonuniform flow with a critical level

A continuous analytical representation of an acoustic-gravitational field in a medium with a nonuniform flow in the presence of a critical layer is constructed. It is shown that taking into account the effect of viscosity eliminates singular values of the field. St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg 198904. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 97–101, March–April, 2000.     

Supersonic low-concentration dusty-gas flow past a plane cylinder in the presence of an oblique shock wave interacting with the bow shock

The motion of an inertial dispersed admixture near a plane cylinder immersed in a steady-state hypersonic dusty flow in the presence of an oblique shock wave interacting with the bow shock is considered. It is assumed that the free-stream particle mass concentration is small and the particles do not affect the carrier flow. The III and IV shock wave interaction regimes are considered. The gas flow parameters in the shock layer are calculated from the numerical solution of the full Navier-Stokes equations for the perfect gas. A TVD second-order finite-difference scheme constructed on the basis of a finite volume method is used. For calculating the dispersed-phase parameters, including the concentration, the full Lagrangian method is used. On a wide range of variation of the particle inertia parameters, the patterns of the particle trajectories, velocity, concentration, and temperature in the shock layer are studied. The possibility of aerodynamic focusing of the particles behind the shock wave intersection point and the formation of narrow beams with a high particle concentration is revealed. These beams impinge on the cylinder surface and result in a sharp increase in the local heat fluxes. The maximal possible increase in the heat fluxes caused by the particles colliding with the cylinder surface is estimated for the flows with and without the incident oblique shock wave.     

Evolution of resonance disturbances in a hartmann flow

A rapid increase of energy of fluctuation motion is observed after a severe loss of stability of laminar regimes. This phenomenon does not find explanation in the scope of the linear theory of stability, which, though it predicts an exponential increase of disturbances in the supercritical region, gives quite small values of the increments. The explosionlike turbulence is due to a nonlinear mechanism. The simplest collective interaction of disturbances is illustrated by a set of three harmonic oscillations whose parameters are associated by resonance relations. Such triplets, being an elementary but sufficiently meaningful model of the nonlinear theory of hydrodynamic stability, have become in recent years the object of interesting investigations [1–4]. In [5–7] branching of stationary triplets of small amplitude from laminar regimes was investigated and it was shown that, beginning with certain Reynolds numbers, the triplet can be composed of neutral waves and Tolman-Schlichting waves increasing according to the linear theory. It is shown in the article that a quite rich example in this case is Hartmann flow, where the existence of triplets of disturbances having a different symmetry relative to the axis of the channel is admitted. The evolution of triplets is studied for near-critical values of the parameters in the framework of amplitude equations obtained on the basis of the Galerkin method with the use of eigenfunctions of the linear theory of stability as the basis [8]. Regimes stationary in the mean are calculated in the supercritical region: limiting cycles and strange attractors; in the latter case a spectral analysis is carried out.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 5, pp. 33–39, September–October, 1978.The authors thank M. A. Gol'dshtik and M. I. Rabinovich for discussing the work.     

Unsteady flow of anomalous fluids in a nonuniform layered stratum

A numerical investigation was made into unsteady flow in a nonuniform layered porous stratum with allowance for the nonlinearity of the flow law. The qualitative features of the flow resulting from the interaction of the flow anomalies with the nonuniformity of the stratum were established. The obtained results can be used in the planning of hydrodynamic methods of investigating strata and oil wells in the case of a nonlinear flow law.