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Dual-plane PIV investigation of acoustically excited jets in a swirl nozzle
journal contribution
posted on 2016-06-20, 11:20 authored by Gavita Regunath, William B. Zimmerman, Julia M. Rees© Author(s) 2016.A novel dual-plane dye laser particle image velocimetry (PIV) technique used to analyze helicity and energy dissipation in an unexcited turbulent swirling jet of pressurized cold air has established that regions within the flow field of the jet exhibiting high helicity are correlated regions of high turbulent kinetic energy dissipation. This PIV configuration provides estimates of all components of the velocity gradient tensor, facilitating calculation of the helicity from the vorticity components. Application of this novel dual-plane PIV technique is extended in this study to investigate helical structures in a turbulent swirling jet where the underlying shear flow is subjected to external acoustic sinusoidal forcing in a plane perpendicular to the central axis of the jet. It was found that acoustic excitation had a significant effect on the mean velocity profile parallel to the direction of the jet. The horizontal forcing resulted in the generation of vorticity that was skewed with a pitch that favored a distribution of angles around 90° with respect to the velocity vector. The distribution of the time-averaged helicity angle indicated organized helical activity, but such activity is not dominated by large-scale coherent structures of maximal helicity.
Funding
This work was funded by EPSRC grant GR/S08695/01.
History
School
- Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering
Department
- Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Published in
Nonlinear Processes in GeophysicsVolume
23Issue
2Pages
83 - 89Citation
REGUNATH, G.S., ZIMMERMAN, W.B. and REES, J.M., 2016. Dual-plane PIV investigation of acoustically excited jets in a swirl nozzle. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 23(2), pp. 83-89.Publisher
© The Authors. Published by European Geosciences UnionVersion
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2016Notes
This is an Open Access Article. It is published by European Geosciences Union under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ISSN
1023-5809eISSN
1607-7946Publisher version
Language
- en