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The effect of jet injection geometry on two-dimensional momentumless wakes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

W. J. Park  and
J. M. Cimbala
W. J. Park
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear and Energy Engineering, Cheju National University, Korea
J. M. Cimbala
Affiliation:
Mechanical Engineering Department, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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Abstract

It is shown experimentally that a two-dimensional momentumless wake is strongly dependent on the jet injection configuration of the model. Namely, the decay rate of mean velocity overshoot ranged from x−0.92 to x−2.0 for three different configurations, while the spreading rate ranged from x0.3 to x0.46 for those same configurations. The magnitude of axial turbulence intensity was also found to depend on model configuration. On the other hand, the rate of decay of axial turbulence intensity was the same (x−0.81) for all three models. In all cases the mean shear and Reynolds stress decayed rapidly, leaving nearly isotropic turbulence beyond 30 or 40 model diameters.

Appropriate length- and velocity scales are identified which normalize the mean velocity profiles into self-similar form. The shape of the normalized profile, however, was different for each configuration, indicating again that the initial conditions are felt very far downstream.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 224 , March 1991 , pp. 29 - 47
Copyright
© 1991 Cambridge University Press

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