Helical Structures in the Near Field of a Turbulent Pipe Jet

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• 作者：R. Mullyadzhanov ; S. Abdurakipov ; K. Hanjalić
• 关键词：Jets ; Vortex dynamics ; Helical structures
• 刊名：Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：98
• 期：2
• 页码：367-388
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• 刊物类别：Engineering
• 刊物主题：Engineering Fluid Dynamics; Fluid- and Aerodynamics; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer; Automotive Engineering;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-1987
• 卷排序：98

文摘

We perform a finely resolved Large-eddy simulation to study coherent vortical structures populating the initial (near-nozzle) zone of a pipe jet at the Reynolds number of 5300. In contrast to ‘top-hat’ jets featured by Kelvin-Helmholtz rings with the non-dimensional frequency St≈0.3−0.6, no high-frequency dominant mode is observed in the near field of a jet issuing from a fully-developed pipe flow. Instead, in shear layers we observe a relatively wide peak in the power spectrum within the low-frequency range (St≈0.14) corresponding to the propagating helical waves entering with the pipe flow. This is confirmed by the Fourier transform with respect to the azimuthal angle and the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition complemented with the linear stability analysis revealing that this low-frequency motion is not connected to the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. We demonstrate that the azimuthal wavenumbers m=1−5 contain the most of the turbulent kinetic energy and that a common form of an eigenmode is a helical vortex rotating around the axis of symmetry. Small and large timescales are identified corresponding to “fast” and “slow” rotating modes. While the “fast” modes correspond to background turbulence and stochastically switch from co- to counter-rotation, the “slow” modes are due to coherent helical structures which are long-lived and have low angular velocities, in agreement with the previously described spectral peak at low St.