Turbulent Flow Downstream of a Perforated Plate: Sharp-Edged Orifice Versus Finite-Thickness Holes

2007 ◽  
Vol 129 (9) ◽  
pp. 1164-1171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Liu ◽  
David S.-K. Ting

In this study, perforated plates with sharp-edged orificed openings and finite-thickness straight openings were applied to produce nearly isotropic turbulence in a wind tunnel. At the same nominal velocity, the orificed perforated plate was able to produce a higher level of turbulence due to the well-defined flow separation from its sharp edge openings. The integral length, L was found to be related to the square root of the turbulence decay coefficient in the power law decay of turbulence kinetic energy, A. The larger A associated with the orificed perforated plate gave rise to a larger L. The corresponding streamwise autocorrelation functions for the two perforated plates behaved differently, confirming the quantitative disparity in L and further indicates some qualitative difference in the large-scale structures generated.

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 878679
Author(s):  
Hailong Zhang ◽  
Jiping Wu ◽  
Jian Chen ◽  
Weidong Liu

Nanoparticle-based planar laser scattering (NPLS) experiments and large eddy simulation (LES) were launched to get the fine structure of the supersonic planar mixing layer with finite thickness in the present study. Different from the turbulent development of supersonic planar mixing layer with thin thickness, the development of supersonic planar mixing layer with finite thickness is rapidly. The large-scale structures of mixing layer that possess the characters of quick movement and slow changes transmit to downriver at invariable speed. The transverse results show that the mixing layer is strip of right and dim and possess 3D characteristics. Meanwhile the vortices roll up from two sides to the center. Results indicate that the higher the pressure of the high speed side is, the thicker the mixing layer is. The development of mixing layer is restrained when the pressure of lower speed side is higher. The momentum thickness goes higher with the increase of the clapboard thickness. Through increasing the temperature to change the compression can affect the development of the vortices. The present study can make a contribution to the mixing enhancement and provide initial data for the later investigations.


1999 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 243-248
Author(s):  
D. Kubáček ◽  
A. Galád ◽  
A. Pravda

AbstractUnusual short-period comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 inspired many observers to explain its unpredictable outbursts. In this paper large scale structures and features from the inner part of the coma in time periods around outbursts are studied. CCD images were taken at Whipple Observatory, Mt. Hopkins, in 1989 and at Astronomical Observatory, Modra, from 1995 to 1998. Photographic plates of the comet were taken at Harvard College Observatory, Oak Ridge, from 1974 to 1982. The latter were digitized at first to apply the same techniques of image processing for optimizing the visibility of features in the coma during outbursts. Outbursts and coma structures show various shapes.


2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (108) ◽  
pp. 20150044 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dervis C. Vural ◽  
Alexander Isakov ◽  
L. Mahadevan

Starting with Darwin, biologists have asked how populations evolve from a low fitness state that is evolutionarily stable to a high fitness state that is not. Specifically of interest is the emergence of cooperation and multicellularity where the fitness of individuals often appears in conflict with that of the population. Theories of social evolution and evolutionary game theory have produced a number of fruitful results employing two-state two-body frameworks. In this study, we depart from this tradition and instead consider a multi-player, multi-state evolutionary game, in which the fitness of an agent is determined by its relationship to an arbitrary number of other agents. We show that populations organize themselves in one of four distinct phases of interdependence depending on one parameter, selection strength. Some of these phases involve the formation of specialized large-scale structures. We then describe how the evolution of independence can be manipulated through various external perturbations.


2011 ◽  
Vol 418 (1) ◽  
pp. 214-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Baldi ◽  
Valeria Pettorino ◽  
Luca Amendola ◽  
Christof Wetterich

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 055112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Zenklusen ◽  
Simon Kuhn ◽  
Philipp Rudolf von Rohr

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