High-Frequency Oscillating-Hot-Wire Sensor for Near-Wall Diagnostics in Separated Flows

AIAA Journal ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 520-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongxiang Li ◽  
A. M. Naguib
Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 1005
Author(s):  
Viktor I. Terekhov

The study of flows with a high degree of turbulence in boundary layers, near-wall jets, gas curtains, separated flows behind various obstacles, as well as during combustion is of great importance for increasing energy efficiency of the flow around various elements in the ducts of gas-dynamic installations. This paper gives some general characteristics of experimental work on the study of friction and heat transfer on a smooth surface, in near-wall jets, and gas curtains under conditions of increased free-stream turbulence. Taking into account the significant effect of high external turbulence on dynamics and heat transfer of separated flows, a similar effect on the flow behind various obstacles is analyzed. First of all, the classical cases of flow separation behind a single backward-facing step and a rib are considered. Then, more complex cases of the flow around a rib oriented at different angles to the flow are analyzed, as well as a system of ribs and a transverse trench with straight and inclined walls in a turbulent flow around them. The features of separated flow in a turbulized stream around a cylinder, leading to an increase in the width of the vortex wake, frequency of vortex separation, and increase in the average heat transfer coefficient are analyzed. The experimental results of the author are compared with data of other researchers. The structure of separated flow at high turbulence—characteristic dimensions of the separation region, parameters of the mixing layer, and pressure distribution—are compared with the conditions of low-turbulent flow. Much attention is paid to thermal characteristics: temperature profiles across the shear layer, temperature distributions over the surface, and local and average heat transfer coefficients. It is shown that external turbulence has a much stronger effect on the separated flow than on the boundary layer on a flat surface. For separated flows, its intensifying effect on heat transfer is more pronounced behind a rib than behind a step. The factor of heat transfer intensification by external turbulence is most pronounced in the transverse cavity and in the system of ribs.


2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Wenzhong ◽  
B. C. Khoo ◽  
Xu Diao

Abstract The present paper is to determine the correction of hot-wire measurements when it is used to measure the shear flows region very close to the non-conducting wall. By numerical simulation of the Navier-Stokes and energy equations using the control volume method, we found that reasonably deployed grid distribution could largely reduce the computational domain size (for a typical Reynolds number for hot-wire near-wall measurements 4.0×10−3∼1.2, the domain boundary placing 650 diameters from the cylinder in front, rear and top is fair enough for accurate simulation, other than the domain boundary which places the 2000 diameters from the cylinder in front and top, and 3000 diameters from the cylinder in rear), and obtain the similar accuracy results for the correction of hot-wire measurements in the near-wall region. Numerical simulation results also show that, only taking the εf,εw (the maximum difference between the respective values of stream function and vorticity on successive iterations) as the criterion for convergence without judge to convergence of the temperature field seems not enough to obtain a convergent simulation result. This may be the possible reason which caused the discrepancy between the simulation results for hot-wire correction when using hot wire to measure the shear flows very close to the non-conducting wall.


2011 ◽  
Vol 677 ◽  
pp. 179-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. JACOBI ◽  
B. J. McKEON

The zero-pressure-gradient turbulent boundary layer over a flat plate was perturbed by a short strip of two-dimensional roughness elements, and the downstream response of the flow field was interrogated by hot-wire anemometry and particle image velocimetry. Two internal layers, marking the two transitions between rough and smooth boundary conditions, are shown to represent the edges of a ‘stress bore’ in the flow field. New scalings, based on the mean velocity gradient and the third moment of the streamwise fluctuating velocity component, are used to identify this ‘stress bore’ as the region of influence of the roughness impulse. Spectral composite maps reveal the redistribution of spectral energy by the impulsive perturbation – in particular, the region of the near-wall peak was reached by use of a single hot wire in order to identify the significant changes to the near-wall cycle. In addition, analysis of the distribution of vortex cores shows a distinct structural change in the flow associated with the perturbation. A short spatially impulsive patch of roughness is shown to provide a vehicle for modifying a large portion of the downstream flow field in a controlled and persistent way.


2009 ◽  
Vol 635 ◽  
pp. 103-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. HUTCHINS ◽  
T. B. NICKELS ◽  
I. MARUSIC ◽  
M. S. CHONG

Careful reassessment of new and pre-existing data shows that recorded scatter in the hot-wire-measured near-wall peak in viscous-scaled streamwise turbulence intensity is due in large part to the simultaneous competing effects of the Reynolds number and viscous-scaled wire length l+. An empirical expression is given to account for these effects. These competing factors can explain much of the disparity in existing literature, in particular explaining how previous studies have incorrectly concluded that the inner-scaled near-wall peak is independent of the Reynolds number. We also investigate the appearance of the so-called outer peak in the broadband streamwise intensity, found by some researchers to occur within the log region of high-Reynolds-number boundary layers. We show that the ‘outer peak’ is consistent with the attenuation of small scales due to large l+. For turbulent boundary layers, in the absence of spatial resolution problems, there is no outer peak up to the Reynolds numbers investigated here (Reτ = 18830). Beyond these Reynolds numbers – and for internal geometries – the existence of such peaks remains open to debate. Fully mapped energy spectra, obtained with a range of l+, are used to demonstrate this phenomenon. We also establish the basis for a ‘maximum flow frequency’, a minimum time scale that the full experimental system must be capable of resolving, in order to ensure that the energetic scales are not attenuated. It is shown that where this criterion is not met (in this instance due to insufficient anemometer/probe response), an outer peak can be reproduced in the streamwise intensity even in the absence of spatial resolution problems. It is also shown that attenuation due to wire length can erode the region of the streamwise energy spectra in which we would normally expect to see kx−1 scaling. In doing so, we are able to rationalize much of the disparity in pre-existing literature over the kx−1 region of self-similarity. Not surprisingly, the attenuated spectra also indicate that Kolmogorov-scaled spectra are subject to substantial errors due to wire spatial resolution issues. These errors persist to wavelengths far beyond those which we might otherwise assume from simple isotropic assumptions of small-scale motions. The effects of hot-wire length-to-diameter ratio (l/d) are also briefly investigated. For the moderate wire Reynolds numbers investigated here, reducing l/d from 200 to 100 has a detrimental effect on measured turbulent fluctuations at a wide range of energetic scales, affecting both the broadband intensity and the energy spectra.


2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 448-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. C. Khoo ◽  
Y. T. Chew ◽  
C. J. Teo
Keyword(s):  
Hot Wire ◽  

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