scholarly journals Counter rotating vortex pair structure in a reacting jet in crossflow

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 1489-1496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vedanth Nair ◽  
Matthew Sirignano ◽  
Benjamin Emerson ◽  
Ben Halls ◽  
Naibo Jiang ◽  
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2001 ◽  
Vol 446 ◽  
pp. 347-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. CORTELEZZI ◽  
A. R. KARAGOZIAN

Among the important physical phenomena associated with the jet in crossflow is the formation and evolution of vortical structures in the flow field, in particular the counter-rotating vortex pair (CVP) associated with the jet cross-section. The present computational study focuses on the mechanisms for the dynamical generation and evolution of these vortical structures. Transient numerical simulations of the flow field are performed using three-dimensional vortex elements. Vortex ring rollup, interactions, tilting, and folding are observed in the near field, consistent with the ideas described in the experimental work of Kelso, Lim & Perry (1996), for example. The time-averaged effect of these jet shear layer vortices, even over a single period of their evolution, is seen to result in initiation of the CVP. Further insight into the topology of the flow field, the formation of wake vortices, the entrainment of crossflow, and the effect of upstream boundary layer thickness is also provided in this study.


2001 ◽  
Vol 444 ◽  
pp. 117-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. RIVERO ◽  
J. A. FERRÉ ◽  
FRANCESC GIRALT

An experimental study to identify the structures present in a jet in crossflow has been carried out at a jet-to-crossflow velocity ratio U/Ucf = 3.8 and Reynolds number Re = UcfD/v = 6600. The hot-wire velocity data measured with a rake of eight X-wires at x/D = 5 and 15 and flow visualizations using planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) confirm that the well-established pair of counter-rotating vortices is a feature of the mean field and that the upright, tornado-like or Fric's vortices that are shed to the leeward side of the jet are connected to the jet flow at the core. The counter-rotating vortex pair is strongly modulated by a coherent velocity field that, in fact, is as important as the mean velocity field. Three different structures – folded vortex rings, horseshoe vortices and handle-type structures – contribute to this coherent field. The new handle-like structures identified in the current study link the boundary layer vorticity with the counter-rotating vortex pair through the upright tornado-like vortices. They are responsible for the modulation and meandering of the counter-rotating vortex pair observed both in video recordings of visualizations and in the instantaneous velocity field. These results corroborate that the genesis of the dominant counter-rotating vortex pair strongly depends on the high pressure gradients that develop in the region near the jet exit, both inside and outside the nozzle.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianlong Chang ◽  
Xudong Shao ◽  
Jiangman Li ◽  
Xiao Hu

Investigation of the classical and pulsating jet in crossflow (JICF) at a low Reynolds number (Re = 100) has been performed by the LES method based on varied velocity ratios (r=  1~4). Time-averaged particle trajectories are compared in the classical and pulsating JICF. The formation mechanism and the corresponding flow characteristics for the counter-rotating vortex pair (CRVP) have been analyzed. An unexpected “vortex tail” has been found in the JICF at higher velocity ratio due to the enhanced interactions indicated by the increased jet momentum among the CRVP, upright vortices, and shear layers. The analysis of time-averaged longitudinal vorticity including a coupling mechanism between vortices has been performed. The returning streamlines appear in the pulsating JICF, and two extra converging points emerge near the nozzle of the jet at different Strouhal numbers. The temperature profiles based on the iso-surface for the classical and pulsating JICF have been obtained computationally and analyzed in detail.


2005 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 474-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Plesniak

This paper presents a review of research done over the past several years at Purdue on non-canonical jets-in-crossflow. It is a retrospective and an integrative compilation of results previously reported as well as some new ones. The emphasis is on jets emanating from “short” holes, with length-diameter ratios of one or less. A canonical jet-in-crossflow configuration is one in which a fully developed jet issues from a long pipe fed by a large plenum, into a semi-infinite cross flow. The configuration presented here is noncanonical in the sense that jet issues from a short hole and thus the flow is unable to “adjust” to the hole, unlike the case of a long hole in which fully developed pipe flow can be attained. This is motivated by gas turbine film cooling applications. Experimental results acquired with particle image velocimetry will primarily be presented, with some complementary information gained from RANS simulations of the flow. Many different aspects of the problem have been investigated, and in this paper the focus will be on structural features within the hole and in the developing jet and crossflow interaction. A significant result is that the in-hole vortical structures, depending on their sense of rotation, tend to augment or weaken the primary counter-rotating vortex pair. This impacts global features such as jet trajectory and spreading.


2021 ◽  
Vol 143 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernhard Stiehl ◽  
Tommy Genova ◽  
Michelle Otero ◽  
Scott Martin ◽  
Kareem Ahmed

Abstract Three reacting jet-in-crossflow (JiC) methane/air flames were numerically investigated in a lean axially staged combustor at a pressure of five atmospheres. A detailed chemistry Star-CCM+ computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model was used with 53 species considered and the result of turbulence-governed finite-rate modeling was validated with in-house experimental data. An optically accessible test section features three side windows, allowing local flow and flame analysis with particle image velocimetry (PIV) and CH* chemiluminescence as well as pressure, temperature, and species exit measurements. The research objective was to predict and verify NOx formation of the premixed 12.7 mm axial jet. Three headend temperature levels were investigated along with three premixed jets at lean (φJet = 0.75), near-stoichiometric (φJet = 1.07), and rich (φJet = 1.78) axial fuel line equivalence ratio. Based on the matching exit emission concentration, global emission benefits were investigated by adjustment of the fuel stratification. The perfectly premixed methane/air flames of this study were shown to ignite at the lee-side of the jet. For the elevated headend temperature level T = 1800 K, the flame extended beyond the windward jet trajectory and caused high axial NO production. For industry application, a firing temperature of 1920 K was achieved with a NOx optimized fuel split of 25%, combining a lean headend (φHeadend = 0.61) with a rich (φJet = 1.78) jet equivalence ratio. This operating point allowed minimization of the combustor residence time at temperatures above 1700 K as well as combustion in a compact flame at the jet lee-side along the counter rotating vortex pair.


2019 ◽  
Vol 865 ◽  
pp. 928-962 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haohua Zong ◽  
Marios Kotsonis

Plasma synthetic jet actuators (PSJAs) are particularly suited for high-Reynolds-number, high-speed flow control due to their unique capability of generating supersonic pulsed jets at high frequency (${>}5$  kHz). Different from conventional synthetic jets driven by oscillating piezoelectric diaphragms, the exit-velocity variation of plasma synthetic jets (PSJs) within one period is significantly asymmetric, with ingestion being relatively weaker (less than $20~\text{m}~\text{s}^{-1}$) and longer than ejection. In this study, high-speed phase-locked particle image velocimetry is employed to investigate the interaction between PSJAs (round exit orifice, diameter 2 mm) and a turbulent boundary layer at constant Strouhal number (0.02) and increasing mean velocity ratio ($r$, defined as the ratio of the time-mean velocity over the ejection phase to the free-stream velocity). Two distinct operational regimes are identified for all the tested cases, separated by a transition velocity ratio, lying between $r=0.7$ and $r=1.0$. At large velocity and stroke ratios (first regime, representative case $r=1.6$), vortex rings are followed by a trailing jet column and tilt downstream initially. This downstream tilting is transformed into upstream tilting after the pinch-off of the trailing jet column. The moment of this transformation relative to the discharge advances with decreasing velocity ratio. Shear-layer vortices (SVs) and a hanging vortex pair (HVP) are identified in the windward and leeward sides of the jet body, respectively. The HVP is initially erect and evolves into an inclined primary counter-rotating vortex pair ($p$-CVP) which branches from the middle of the front vortex ring and extends to the near-wall region. The two legs of the $p$-CVP are bridged by SVs, and a secondary counter-rotating vortex pair ($s$-CVP) is induced underneath these two legs. At low velocity and stroke ratios (second regime, representative case $r=0.7$), the trailing jet column and $p$-CVP are absent. Vortex rings always tilt upstream, and the pitching angle increases monotonically with time. An $s$-CVP in the near-wall region is induced directly by the two longitudinal edges of the ring. Inspection of spanwise planes ($yz$-plane) reveals that boundary-layer energization is realized by the downwash effect of either vortex rings or $p$-CVP. In addition, in the streamwise symmetry plane, the increasing wall shear stress is attributed to the removal of low-energy flow by ingestion. The downwash effect of the $s$-CVP does not benefit boundary-layer energization, as the flow swept to the wall is of low energy.


Author(s):  
Masahiko Shinohara

Numerical simulations are performed to study the formation of a counter-rotating vortex pair (CVP), a dominant flow feature in plumes inclined in a cross-flow. The unsteady three-dimensional flow fields are calculated by a finite difference method using the Boussinesq approximation. A plume rises from an isothermally heated square surface facing upward in air. Calculations show that the CVP originates not from horizontal spanwise vorticity in the velocity boundary layer on the bottom wall around the heated area, but from horizontal streamwise vorticity just above each side of the heated area. When the cross-flow begins after a plume forms a vortex ring in the cap above the heated area in a still environment, the vortex ring does not form a CVP. However, as the cap and the stem of the plume move downwind, a rotation about the streamwise axis appears just above each side edge of the heated area and grows into the CVP. We discuss the effect of entrainment into the stem and cap on the formation of the streamwise rotation that causes the CVP.


2017 ◽  
Vol 140 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad A. Hossain ◽  
Robin Prenter ◽  
Ryan K. Lundgreen ◽  
Ali Ameri ◽  
James W. Gregory ◽  
...  

A companion experimental and numerical study was conducted for the performance of a row of five sweeping jet (SJ) film cooling holes consisting of conventional curved fluidic oscillators with an aspect ratio (AR) of unity and a hole spacing of P/D = 8.5. Adiabatic film effectiveness (η), thermal field (θ), convective heat transfer coefficient (h), and discharge coefficient (CD) were measured at two different freestream turbulence levels (Tu = 0.4% and 10.1%) and four blowing ratios (M = 0.98, 1.97, 2.94, and 3.96) at a density ratio of 1.04 and hole Reynolds number of ReD = 2800. Adiabatic film effectiveness and thermal field data were also acquired for a baseline 777-shaped hole. The SJ film cooling hole showed significant improvement in cooling effectiveness in the lateral direction due to the sweeping action of the fluidic oscillator. An unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (URANS) simulation was performed to evaluate the flow field at the exit of the hole. Time-resolved flow fields revealed two alternating streamwise vortices at all blowing ratios. The sense of rotation of these alternating vortices is opposite to the traditional counter-rotating vortex pair (CRVP) found in a “jet in crossflow” and serves to spread the film coolant laterally.


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