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A visual investigation of turbulence in stagnation flow about a circular cylinder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2006

Willy Z. Sadeh  and
Herbert J. Brauer
Willy Z. Sadeh
Affiliation:
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523
Herbert J. Brauer
Affiliation:
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523
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Abstract

A diagnostic visualization study of turbulence in stagnation flow around a circular cylinder was carried out to gain physical insight into the coherent structure of turbulence in flow around a bluff body advanced by the vorticity-amplification theory. The visualization was conducted at a cylinder-diameter Reynolds number of 8 × 103 utilizing titanium dioxide white smoke for an approaching flow containing turbulence at scales larger than the neutral wavelength of the stagnation flow. Analyses of the flow events focused on tracing out the temporal and spatial evolution of a cross-vortex tube outlined by the entrained smoke filaments from its emergence near the stagnation zone through its penetration into the cylinder boundary layer.

The selective stretching of cross-vortex tubes, their streamwise tilting, the emergence of an organized turbulent flow pattern near the stagnation zone, the interaction of the amplified vorticity with the body laminar boundary layer and the growth of a turbulent boundary layer were revealed by the visualization. In particular, the visualization indicated that the cross-vortex tubes conveyed by the diverging stagnation flow constitute a coherent substructure within the overall turbulent flow that is triggered to its fullest manifestation by the stretching mechanism.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 99 , Issue 1 , 11 July 1980 , pp. 53 - 64
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© 1980 Cambridge University Press

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