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The force exerted on a body in inviscid unsteady non-uniform rotational flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2006

T. R. Auton ,
J. C. R. Hunt  and
M. Prud'Homme
T. R. Auton
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Silver Street, Cambridge CB3 9EW, UK
J. C. R. Hunt
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Silver Street, Cambridge CB3 9EW, UK
M. Prud'Homme
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Silver Street, Cambridge CB3 9EW, UK
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Abstract

A general expression is derived for the fluid force on a body of simple shape moving with a velocity v through inviscid fluid in which there is an unsteady non-uniform rotational velocity field u0(x,t) in two or three dimensions. It is assumed that the radius is small compared with the scale over which the strain rate changes, though for the sphere it is also assumed that the changes in the ambient velocity field over the scale of the sphere are small compared with the velocity of the body relative to the flow. Given these approximations it is shown that the effects of the rate of change of the vorticity of the ambient flow is of second order and can be neglected. However the rate of change of the irrotational straining motion is included in the analysis. It is shown that the inertial forces derived by many authors for irrotational flow can be simply added to a generalization of the lift force derived by Auton (1987) in a companion paper. It is shown how this lift force is made up of a rotational and an inertial or added-mass component. For three-dimensional bluff bodies the latter is generally larger (by a factor of three for a sphere), and can be simply calculated from the added-mass coefficient. For illustration, the general expression is used to derive formulae for (i) the motion of a spherical bubble in a steady non-uniform flow to contrast with the motion in an unsteady flow, and (ii) the motion of rigid volumes of neutral density across an inviscid shear flow. These results show how added-mass (and lift) forces lead to different motions for a sphere and a cylinder. The general expression is useful in two-phase flow calculations, and for indicating the forces and motions of ‘lumps of fluid’ in turbulent flows.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 197 , December 1988 , pp. 241 - 257
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© 1988 Cambridge University Press

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