scholarly journals Compressible mixing layer in shock-induced separation

2019 ◽  
Vol 863 ◽  
pp. 620-643 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Dupont ◽  
S. Piponniau ◽  
J. P. Dussauge

Unsteadiness in separated shock–boundary layer interactions have been previously analysed in order to propose a scenario of entrainment–discharge as the origin of unsteadiness. It was assumed that the fluid in the separated zone is entrained by the free shear layer formed at its edge, and that this layer follows the properties of the canonical mixing layer. This last point is addressed by reanalysing the velocity measurements in an oblique shock reflection at a nominal Mach number of 2.3 and for two cases of flow deviation ($8^{\circ }$ and $9.5^{\circ }$). The rate of spatial growth of this layer is evaluated from the spatial growth of the turbulent stress profiles. Moreover, the entrainment velocity at the edge of the layer is determined from the mean velocity profiles. It is shown that the values of turbulent shear stress, spreading rate and entrainment velocity are consistent, and that they follow the classical laws for turbulent transport in compressible shear layers. Moreover, the measurements suggest that the vertical normal stress is sensitive to compressibility, so that the anisotropy of turbulence is affected by high Mach numbers. Dimensional considerations proposed by Brown & Roshko (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 64, 1974, 775–781) are reformulated to explain this observed trend.

Author(s):  
Michael P. Schultz ◽  
Ralph J. Volino

An experimental investigation has been carried out on a transitional boundary layer subject to high (initially 9%) free-stream turbulence, strong acceleration K=ν/Uw2dUw/dxas high as9×10-6, and strong concave curvature (boundary layer thickness between 2% and 5% of the wall radius of curvature). Mean and fluctuating velocity as well as turbulent shear stress are documented and compared to results from equivalent cases on a flat wall and a wall with milder concave curvature. The data show that curvature does have a significant effect, moving the transition location upstream, increasing turbulent transport, and causing skin friction to rise by as much as 40%. Conditional sampling results are presented which show that the curvature effect is present in both the turbulent and non-turbulent zones of the transitional flow.


2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph J. Volino ◽  
Michael P. Schultz ◽  
Christopher M. Pratt

Conditional sampling has been performed on data from a transitional boundary layer subject to high (initially 9%) freestream turbulence and strong (K=ν/U∞2dU∞/dx as high as 9×10−6) acceleration. Methods for separating the turbulent and nonturbulent zone data based on the instantaneous streamwise velocity and the turbulent shear stress were tested and found to agree. Mean velocity profiles were clearly different in the turbulent and nonturbulent zones, and skin friction coefficients were as much as 70% higher in the turbulent zone. The streamwise fluctuating velocity, in contrast, was only about 10% higher in the turbulent zone. Turbulent shear stress differed by an order of magnitude, and eddy viscosity was three to four times higher in the turbulent zone. Eddy transport in the nonturbulent zone was still significant, however, and the nonturbulent zone did not behave like a laminar boundary layer. Within each of the two zones there was considerable self-similarity from the beginning to the end of transition. This may prove useful for future modeling efforts.


2000 ◽  
Vol 421 ◽  
pp. 229-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
JONATHAN B. FREUND ◽  
SANJIVA K. LELE ◽  
PARVIZ MOIN

This work uses direct numerical simulations of time evolving annular mixing layers, which correspond to the early development of round jets, to study compressibility effects on turbulence in free shear flows. Nine cases were considered with convective Mach numbers ranging from Mc = 0.1 to 1.8 and turbulence Mach numbers reaching as high as Mt = 0.8.Growth rates of the simulated mixing layers are suppressed with increasing Mach number as observed experimentally. Also in accord with experiments, the mean velocity difference across the layer is found to be inadequate for scaling most turbulence statistics. An alternative scaling based on the mean velocity difference across a typical large eddy, whose dimension is determined by two-point spatial correlations, is proposed and validated. Analysis of the budget of the streamwise component of Reynolds stress shows how the new scaling is linked to the observed growth rate suppression. Dilatational contributions to the budget of turbulent kinetic energy are found to increase rapidly with Mach number, but remain small even at Mc = 1.8 despite the fact that shocklets are found at high Mach numbers. Flow visualizations show that at low Mach numbers the mixing region is dominated by large azimuthally correlated rollers whereas at high Mach numbers the flow is dominated by small streamwise oriented structures. An acoustic timescale limitation for supersonically deforming eddies is found to be consistent with the observations and scalings and is offered as a possible explanation for the decrease in transverse lengthscale.


2004 ◽  
Vol 108 (1086) ◽  
pp. 419-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. R. Viswanath ◽  
K. T. Madhavan

Abstract Experiments have been performed investigating the effectiveness of steady tangential blowing, with the blowing slot located downstream of separation (but inside the separation bubble) to control a trailing-edge separated flow at low speeds. Trailing-edge separation was induced on a two-dimensional aerofoil-like body and the shear layer closure occurred in the near-wake. Measurements made consisted of model surface pressures and mean velocity, turbulent shear stress and kinetic energy profiles in the separated zone using a two-component LDV system. It is explicitly demonstrated that the novel concept of tangential blowing inside the bubble can be an effective means of control for trailing-edge separated flows as well. Blowing mass and momentum requirements for the suppression of wall and wake flow reversals have been estimated.


1979 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 531-539 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Bogusławski ◽  
Cz. O. Popiel

This note presents measurements of radial and axial distributions of mean velocity, turbulent intensities and kinetic energy as well as radial distributions of the turbulent shear stress in the initial region of a turbulent air jet issuing from a long round pipe into still air. The pipe flow is transformed relatively smoothly into a jet flow. In the core subregion the mean centre-line velocity decreases slightly. The highest turbulence occurs at an axial distance of about 6d and radius of (0·7 to 0·8)d. On the axis the highest turbulent kinetic energy appears at a distance of (7·5 to 8·5)d. Normalized distributions of the turbulent quantities are in good agreement with known data on the developed region of jets issuing from short nozzles.


2012 ◽  
Vol 694 ◽  
pp. 50-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshiyuki Tsuji ◽  
Yukio Kaneda

AbstractWe measured the correlation spectrum ${\hat {Q} }_{p} (\mathbi{k})$ of pressure fluctuations in a driving mixing layer with a Taylor-scale Reynolds number ${R}_{\lambda } $ up to ${\simeq }700$ by a newly developed pressure probe with spatial and temporal resolutions that are sufficient to analyse inertial-subrange statistics. The influence of the mean velocity gradient tensor ${S}_{ij} $ in the mixing layer, which is almost constant near its centreline, is studied using an idea similar to that underlying the linear response theory developed in statistical mechanics for systems at or near thermal equilibrium. If we write the spectrum ${\hat {Q} }_{p} (\mathbi{k})$ as ${\hat {Q} }_{p} (\mathbi{k})= { \hat {Q} }_{p}^{(0)} (\mathbi{k})+ \mrm{\Delta} {\hat {Q} }_{p} (\mathbi{k})$, where ${ \hat {Q} }_{p}^{(0)} (\mathbi{k})$ is the isotropic Kolmogorov spectrum in the absence of mean shear, then for small ${S}_{ij} $ the deviation $ \mrm{\Delta} {\hat {Q} }_{p} (\mathbi{k})$ due to the shear is approximately linear and is determined by a few non-dimensional universal constants in addition to ${S}_{ij} $, $k$ and the mean energy dissipation rate. We also measured the pressure–velocity and velocity–velocity correlation spectra. Deviations from isotropy due to shear are shown to be approximately proportional to ${S}_{ij} $ at large ${R}_{\lambda } $.


Author(s):  
Alan Dow ◽  
George Elizarraras ◽  
Hamid R. Rahai ◽  
Hamid Hefazi

Measurements of three components of mean velocity and simultaneous time-resolved measurements of axial and vertical turbulent velocities and their cross moment were made at three perpendicular planes slightly upstream of the corner and in the downstream interaction region of a cylinder-flat plate junction with and without an upstream circular manipulator. The circular manipulator was a smooth circular cylinder of 1.25 mm diameter, which was placed upstream of the cylinder at X/D = 1.2, within the boundary layer above the flat plate surface. Results show that when the manipulator is in place, there is a decrease in the axial mean velocity and increases in the axial mean squared turbulent velocity and turbulent shear stress at the first plane. There is an expanded region of secondary flow with reduced circulation, indicating that the manipulator has reduced the strength of the horseshoe vortex in this region.


Author(s):  
Ralph J. Volino ◽  
Michael P. Schultz ◽  
Christopher M. Pratt

Conditional sampling has been performed on data from a transitional boundary layer subject to high (initially 9%) free-stream turbulence and strong K=ν/U∞2dU∞/dxas high as9×10-6 acceleration. Methods for separating the turbulent and non-turbulent zone data based on the instantaneous streamwise velocity and the turbulent shear stress were tested and found to agree. Mean velocity profiles were clearly different in the turbulent and non-turbulent zones, and skin friction coefficients were as much as 70% higher in the turbulent zone. The streamwise fluctuating velocity, in contrast, was only about 10% higher in the turbulent zone. Turbulent shear stress differed by an order of magnitude, and eddy viscosity was three to four times higher in the turbulent zone. Eddy transport in the non-turbulent zone was still significant, however, and the non-turbulent zone did not behave like a laminar boundary layer. Within each of the two zones there was considerable self-similarity from the beginning to the end of transition. This may prove useful for future modeling efforts.


1976 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian S. F. Jones

Wavenumber frequency spectra have been measured in a two-dimensional incompressible mixing layer, using linearized hot-wire anemometers. Spectra of two dimensions (frequency and wavenumber) have been measured for lateral and longitudinal turbulent velocities, and used to construct three-dimensional spectra. The validity of the separation assumption used to construct these spectra was tested. Spectra of the velocity product responsible for the mean shear stress and the lateral gradient of this spectrum have been determined, as has a structure constant for the lateral velocity fluctuations that Phillips (1967) suggested is relevant to the maintenance of the shear stress gradient. Phillips’ (1967) stress model fails the tests proposed in this study.


1992 ◽  
Vol 237 ◽  
pp. 301-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji Ryong Cho ◽  
Myung Kyoon Chung

By considering the entrainment effect on the intermittency in the free boundary of shear layers, a set of turbulence model equations for the turbulent kinetic energy k, the dissipation rate ε, and the intermittency factor γ is proposed. This enables us to incorporate explicitly the intermittency effect in the conventional K–ε turbulence model equations. The eddy viscosity νt is estimated by a function of K, ε and γ. In contrast to the closure schemes of previous intermittency modelling which employ conditional zone averaged moments, the present model equations are based on the conventional Reynolds averaged moments. This method is more economical in the sense that it halves the number of partial differential equations to be solved. The proposed K–ε–γ model has been applied to compute a plane jet, a round jet, a plane far wake and a plane mixing layer. The computational results of the model show considerable improvement over previous models for all these shear flows. In particular, the spreading rate, the centreline mean velocity and the profiles of Reynolds stresses and turbulent kinetic energy are calculated with significantly improved accuracy.


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