Layered Von Kármán’s swirling flow

Correction to the Taylor hypothesis in swirling flows

We present experimental results on the analysis of turbulent velocity measurements in the flow that develops in the gap between two coaxial counter-rotating disks (von K£rm£n swirling flow). In the absence of a well-defined mean velocity we introduce the use of a "local Taylor hypothesis" to obtain spatial information from hot-wire measurement at a fixed location. The results are in agreement w...

Numerical Simulation of a Confined Swirling Flow in a Model Gas Turbine Combustor

Direct numerical simulation of Open Von Kármán Swirling Flow

Direct numerical simulations are used to investigate the Open Von Kármán Swirling Flow, a new type of unsteady three-dimensional flow that is formed between two counter-rotating coaxial disks with an axial extraction enclosed by a cylinder chamber. Solution verification shows that monotonic convergence is achieved on three systematically refined grids for average pressure at the disk periphery ...

Influence of Thermal Radiation Models on Prediction of Reactive Swirling Methane/Air Flame in a Model Gas Turbine Combustor

 A numerical simulation of reactive swirling methane/air non-premixed flame in a new three-dimensional model combustion chamber is carried out to assess the performance of two thermal radiation models, namely, the Discrete Transfer Radiation Model and the P-1 Model. A Finite Volume staggered grid approach is employed to solve the governing equations.The second-order upwind scheme is applied for...

A stochastic model of torques in von Karman swirling flow

A stochastic model is derived to predict the turbulent torque produced by a swirling flow. It is a simple Langevin process, with a colored noise. Using the unified colored noise approximation, we derive analytically the PDF of the fluctuations of injected power in two forcing regimes: constant angular velocity or constant applied torque. In the limit of small velocity fluctuations and vanishing...