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Scaling and instability of a junction vortex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2007

J. J. ALLEN  and
T. NAITOH
J. J. ALLEN
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA
T. NAITOH
Affiliation:
Department of Systems Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 446, Japan
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Abstract

This paper details experiments in the region where an impulsively started moving wall slides under a stationary wall. The experiments were conducted over a Reynolds number range of ReΓ=5×102–5×105. The length scale for the Reynolds number is defined as the distance the wall has moved from rest and increases during an experiment. Experiments show that for ReΓ>103 a vortex forms close to the junction where the moving wall meets the stationary one. The data shows that while the vortical structure is small, in relation to the fixed-apparatus length scale, the size of the vortex normalized with respect to the wall speed and viscosity scales in a universal fashion with respect to ReΓ. The scaling rate is proportional to t5/6 when the Reynolds number is large. The kinematic behaviour of the vortex is related to the impulse that the moving wall applies to the fluid and results in a prediction that the transient structure should grow as t5/6 and the velocity field should scale as t−1/6. The spatial-growth prediction is in good agreement with the experimental results and the velocity scaling is moderately successful in collapsing the experimental data.

For ReΓ>2×104 three-dimensional instabilities appear on the perimeter of the vortical structure and the flow transitions from an unsteady two-dimensional flow to a strongly three-dimensional vortical structure at ReΓ≃ 4 × 104. The instability mechanism is centrifugal. The formation and growth of these instability structures and their ingestion into the primary vortex core causes the three-dimensional breakdown of the primary vortex. Two movies are available with the online version of the paper.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 574 , 10 March 2007 , pp. 1 - 23
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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