- Title
- Key factors in determining the magnitude of vorticity in turbulent plane wakes
- Creator
- Mi, Jian-Chun; Antonia, R. A.
- Relation
- Chinese Physics Letters Vol. 27, Issue 2
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0256-307x/27/2/024702
- Publisher
- Institute of Physics Publishing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- We examine the effects of local turbulence Reynolds number R⋋ and inflow conditions on the magnitude of vorticity in plane turbulent wakes. Measurements of the spanwise component (ω₃) of the fluctuating vorticity vector ω = ω₁i + ω₂j + ω₃k (here the subscripts 1, 2 and 3 denote the streamwise, lateral and spanwise directions, respectively) are made in turbulent wakes of a screen and a circular cylinder. Lateral distributions of ω*₃ (normalized) in general depend on both R⋋ and inflow conditions. In the developing region, as the downstream distance x₁ increases, ω*₃ increases significantly in the screen wake but decreases slightly in the cylinder wake. Far downstream in the self-preserving region, ω*₃ increases linearly with R⋋ while it no longer varies with x₁ and depends weakly on the influence of inflow conditions. Our analysis suggests that these findings from the measurement of ω*₃ should apply for the magnitude of ω.
- Subject
- cylinder wake; fluctuations; calibration; probes; flow
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/933014
- Identifier
- uon:11523
- Identifier
- ISSN:0256-307X
- Language
- eng
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