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Dynamics of Compact Vortex Rings Generated by Axial Swirlers at Early Stage

He, Chuangxin; Gan, Lian; Liu, Yingzheng

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Chuangxin He

Yingzheng Liu



Abstract

This work concentrates on the study of flow dynamics of swirl vortex rings at the Reynolds number Re = 20 000 using a combination of the planar- and stereo-particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements and dynamic delayed detached-eddy simulation. Particular attention is paid to the identification of the large-scale azimuthal modes in the vortex ring propagation process. In the experiments, vortex rings are issued from piston-driven axial swirlers with the swirl number ranges from S = 0 to 1.10. The stroke ratio L/D = 1.5 is used to produce a compact vortex ring without a trailing jet. PIV measurements are conducted in a water tank, while the in-plane component flow velocities on the longitudinal center plane and the three-component flow velocities on the cross section plane at several downstream locations according to the ring trajectories are obtained. In the simulation, the axial swirlers are also included, while the piston motion is realized by imposing a time-dependent inflow condition. Two types of dynamic effects in the vortex ring propagation process are captured by the planar-PIV measurement: the arriving time effect and the azimuthal effect, which induce parallel shift of the vortex ring core and the radial tilting of the vortex sheet, respectively. These modes are identified using the stereo-PIV results by applying the fast Fourier transform in the azimuthal direction, followed by the proper orthogonal decomposition on the radial and temporal directions. It shows that both m = 0 and 1 modes (m is the azimuthal wave number) coexist in the weakly swirled vortex rings, while the m = 2 mode arises and the m = 0 mode decays at high swirl numbers. The simulation also identifies the m = 1 and 2 modes, while the m = 2 mode has a large pitch with respect to the formation time.

Citation

He, C., Gan, L., & Liu, Y. (2020). Dynamics of Compact Vortex Rings Generated by Axial Swirlers at Early Stage. Physics of Fluids, 32(4), Article 045104. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0004156

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Mar 17, 2020
Online Publication Date Apr 6, 2020
Publication Date Apr 30, 2020
Deposit Date Apr 1, 2020
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Physics of Fluids
Print ISSN 1070-6631
Electronic ISSN 1089-7666
Publisher American Institute of Physics
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 32
Issue 4
Article Number 045104
DOI https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0004156

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He, Chuangxin, Gan, Lian & Liu, Yingzheng (2020). Dynamics of Compact Vortex Rings Generated by Axial Swirlers at Early Stage. Physics of Fluids 32(4): 045104 and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0004156





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