On Detached Shocks for Blunt Bodies at Small Angles of Attack

1965 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-276
Author(s):  
Hsuan Yeh ◽  
Raymond Doby

This paper is addressed to the problem of determining the subsonic flow field that exists between the shock and the associated blunt body at small angles of attack. An inverse perturbation procedure is used whereby the shock itself is caused to rotate and the body that supports the perturbed shock is determined. It is found that the perturbed body does not possess a rigid-body-rotation relation relative to the primary flow body. Curves and tables are presented which represent the results of the numerical computations.

2002 ◽  
Vol 457 ◽  
pp. 111-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. R. HUNT ◽  
I. EAMES

The singular effects of steady large-scale external strain on the viscous wake generated by a rigid body and the overall flow field are analysed. In an accelerating flow strained at a positive rate, the vorticity field is annihilated owing to positive and negative vorticity either side of the wake centreline diffusing into one another and the volume flux in the wake decreases with downwind distance. Since the wake disappears, the far-field flow changes from monopolar to dipolar. In this case, the force on the body is no longer proportional to the strength of the monopole, but is proportional to the strength of the far field dipole. These results are extended to the case of strained turbulent wakes and this is verified against experimental wind tunnel measurements of Keffer (1965) and Elliott & Townsend (1981) for positive and negative strains. The analysis demonstrates why the total force acting on a body may be estimated by adding the viscous drag and inviscid force due to the irrotational straining field.Applying the analysis to the wake region of a rigid body or a bubble shows that the wake volume flux decreases even in uniform flows owing to the local straining flow in the near-wake region. While the wake volume flux decreases by a small amount for the flow over streamline and bluff bodies, for the case of a clean bubble the decrease is so large as to render Betz's (1925) drag formula invalid.To show how these results may be applied to complex flows, the effects of a sequence of positive and negative strains on the wake are considered. The average wake width is much larger than in the absence of a strain field and this leads to diffusion of vorticity between wakes and the cancellation of vorticity. The latter mechanism leads to a net reduction in the volume flux deficit downstream which explains why in calculations of the flow through groups of moving or stationary bodies the wakes of upstream bodies may be ignored even though their drag and lift forces have a significant effect on the overall flow field.


2019 ◽  
Vol 864 ◽  
pp. 554-595 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabien Candelier ◽  
Bernhard Mehlig ◽  
Jacques Magnaudet

We compute the leading-order inertial corrections to the instantaneous force acting on a rigid body moving with a time-dependent slip velocity in a linear flow field, assuming that the square root of the Reynolds number based on the fluid-velocity gradient is much larger than the Reynolds number based on the slip velocity between the body and the fluid. As a first step towards applications to dilute sheared suspensions and turbulent particle-laden flows, we seek a formulation allowing this force to be determined for an arbitrarily shaped body moving in a general linear flow. We express the equations governing the flow disturbance in a non-orthogonal coordinate system moving with the undisturbed flow and solve the problem using matched asymptotic expansions. The use of the co-moving coordinates enables the leading-order inertial corrections to the force to be obtained at any time in an arbitrary linear flow field. We then specialize this approach to compute the time-dependent force components for a sphere moving in three canonical flows: solid-body rotation, planar elongation, and uniform shear. We discuss the behaviour and physical origin of the different force components in the short-time and quasi-steady limits. Last, we illustrate the influence of time-dependent and quasi-steady inertial effects by examining the sedimentation of prolate and oblate spheroids in a pure shear flow.


The classical Kirchhoff’s method provides an efficient way of calculating the hydrodynamical loads (forces and moments) acting on a rigid body moving with six-degrees of freedom in an otherwise quiescent ideal fluid in terms of the body’s added-mass tensor. In this paper we provide a versatile extension of such a formulation to account for both the presence of an imposed ambient non-uniform flow field and the effect of surface deformation of a non-rigid body. The flow inhomogeneity is assumed to be weak when compared against the size of the body. The corresponding expressions for the force and moment are given in a moving body-fixed coordinate system and are obtained using the Lagally theorem. The newly derived system of nonlinear differential equations of motion is shown to possess a first integral. This can be interpreted as an energy-type conservation law and is a consequence of an anti-symmetry property of the coefficient matrix reported here for the first time. A few applications of the proposed formulation are presented including comparison with some existing limiting cases.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-17
Author(s):  
D. Leshchenko ◽  
◽  
T. Kozachenko ◽  

The dynamics of rotating rigid bodies is a classical topic of study in mechanics. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, several aspects of a rotating rigid body motion were studied by famous mathematicians as Euler, Jacobi, Poinsot, Lagrange, and Kovalevskya. However, the study of the dynamics of rotating bodies of still important for aplications such as the dynamics of satellite-gyrostat, spacecraft, re-entry vehicles, theory of gyroscopes, modern technology, navigation, space engineering and many other areas. A number of studies are devoted to the dynamics of a rigid body in a resistive medium. The presence of the velocity of proper rotation of the rigid body leads to the apearance of dissipative torques causing the braking of the body rotation. These torques depend on the properties of resistant medium in which the rigid body motions occur, on the body shape, on the properties of the surface of the rigid body and the distribution of mass in the body and on the characters of the rigid body motion. Therefore, the dependence of the resistant torque on the orientation of the rigid body and its angular velocity can de quite complicated and requires consideration of the motion of the medium around the body in the general case. We confine ourselves in this paper to some simple relations that can qualitative describe the resistance to rigid body rotation at small angular velocities and are used in the literature. In setting up the equations of motion of a rigid body moving in viscous medium, we need to consider the nature of the resisting force generated by the motion of the rigid body. The evolution of rotations of a rigid body influenced by dissipative disturbing torques were studied in many papers and books. The problems of motion of a rigid body about fixed point in a resistive medium described by nonlinear dynamic Euler equations. An analytical solution of the problem when the torques of external resistance forces are proportional to the corresponding projections of the angular velocity of the rigid body is obtain in several works. The dependence of the dissipative torque of the resistant forces on the angular velocity vector of rotation of the rigid body is assumed to be linear. We consider dynamics of a rigid body with arbitrary moments of inertia subjected to external torques include small dissipative torques.


2013 ◽  
Vol 387 ◽  
pp. 345-349
Author(s):  
Zhang Jun Wang ◽  
Zhuo Xiong Zeng ◽  
Guo Hui Tu

Based on the idea of single cavity trapped vortex combustor, a advanced vortex combustor which is constitute by three blunt bodies and double concave cavity is proposed. And the interior combustor flow characteristics are analyzed. The results shows that the flow field characteristics changed a lot before and after combustor modification, and D2=20mm, D3=4mm are respectively the best modification scheme on the second and third blunt body.


2014 ◽  
Vol 554 ◽  
pp. 717-723
Author(s):  
Reza Abbasabadi Hassanzadeh ◽  
Shahab Shariatmadari ◽  
Ali Chegeni ◽  
Seyed Alireza Ghazanfari ◽  
Mahdi Nakisa

The present study aims to investigate the optimized profile of the body through minimizing the Drag coefficient in certain Reynolds regime. For this purpose, effective aerodynamic computations are required to find the Drag coefficient. Then, the computations should be coupled thorough an optimization process to obtain the optimized profile. The aerodynamic computations include calculating the surrounding potential flow field of an object, calculating the laminar and turbulent boundary layer close to the object, and calculating the Drag coefficient of the object’s body surface. To optimize the profile, indirect methods are used to calculate the potential flow since the object profile is initially amorphous. In addition to the indirect methods, the present study has also used axial singularity method which is more precise and efficient compared to other methods. In this method, the body profile is not optimized directly. Instead, a sink-and-source singularity distribution is used on the axis to model the body profile and calculate the relevant viscose flow field.


Author(s):  
Domenica Mirauda ◽  
Antonio Volpe Plantamura ◽  
Stefano Malavasi

This work analyzes the effects of the interaction between an oscillating sphere and free surface flows through the reconstruction of the flow field around the body and the analysis of the displacements. The experiments were performed in an open water channel, where the sphere had three different boundary conditions in respect to the flow, defined as h* (the ratio between the distance of the sphere upper surface from the free surface and the sphere diameter). A quasi-symmetric condition at h* = 2, with the sphere equally distant from the free surface and the channel bottom, and two conditions of asymmetric bounded flow, one with the sphere located at a distance of 0.003m from the bottom at h* = 3.97 and the other with the sphere close to the free surface at h* = 0, were considered. The sphere was free to move in two directions, streamwise (x) and transverse to the flow (y), and was characterized by values of mass ratio, m* = 1.34 (ratio between the system mass and the displaced fluid mass), and damping ratio, ζ = 0.004. The comparison between the results of the analyzed boundary conditions has shown the strong influence of the free surface on the evolution of the vortex structures downstream the obstacle.


2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 548-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bas M. van Dalen ◽  
Kadir Caliskan ◽  
Osama I.I. Soliman ◽  
Floris Kauer ◽  
Heleen B. van der Zwaan ◽  
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Author(s):  
S Choura

The reduction of residual vibrations for the position control of a flexible rotating beam carrying a payload mass is investigated. The common practice used to find the position control of a flexible multi-link arm is to assign a torque actuator to each joint while the payload mass is kept fixed relative to the end-link during the time of manoeuvre. This paper examines the stability of the system if either the payload is freed accidentally to move along the beam during the time of manoeuvre or is allowed to span the beam in a desired path for control purposes. A candidate Lyapunov function is constructed and its time rate of change is examined. It is shown that the use of a PD (proportional plus derivative) torque control yields a convergence of residual vibration to zero, an attainment of the rigid-body rotation to a prespecified desired angle of manoeuvre and a constant velocity of the payload mass as it moves relative to the beam. For manipulation purposes, an additional control force is added to the moving actuator in order to regulate its axial motion. It is shown that allowing the axial motion of the payload mass in a prescribed manner leads to a considerable reduction of its residual vibrations as compared to the case where the payload mass is fixed to the beam tip during the time of manoeuvre. Stability is also verified through simulations of rigid-body rotation and payload axial motion track prespecified reference trajectories.


Author(s):  
X. Tong ◽  
B. Tabarrok

Abstract In this paper the global motion of a rigid body subject to small periodic torques, which has a fixed direction in the body-fixed coordinate frame, is investigated by means of Melnikov’s method. Deprit’s variables are introduced to transform the equations of motion into a form describing a slowly varying oscillator. Then the Melnikov method developed for the slowly varying oscillator is used to predict the transversal intersections of stable and unstable manifolds for the perturbed rigid body motion. It is shown that there exist transversal intersections of heteroclinic orbits for certain ranges of parameter values.


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