The pinch-off process of the leading vortex ring in a starting jet

The pinch-off of the leading vortex ring at a critical time scale, defined as the formation number (Gharib et al. 1998), has been identified as an important phenomenon for vortex ring formation in a starting jet. Previous researchers have also demonstrated the effect of non-impulsive velocity progra...

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主要作者: Gao, Lei
其他作者: Yu Ching Man, Simon
格式: Theses and Dissertations
語言:English
出版: 2011
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在線閱讀:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/43856
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機構: Nanyang Technological University
語言: English
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總結:The pinch-off of the leading vortex ring at a critical time scale, defined as the formation number (Gharib et al. 1998), has been identified as an important phenomenon for vortex ring formation in a starting jet. Previous researchers have also demonstrated the effect of non-impulsive velocity program on delaying the onset of pinch-off process and generating thicker vortex ring. Thus, experiments in present study focus on starting jets with different velocity programs and Reynolds numbers ($\textrm{Re} = 2600, 4100, 5600$) so as to determine the detailed characteristics of the pinch-off process. Digital Particle Image Velocimetry (DPIV) has been used to measure the velocity field, from which vorticity, circulation, impulse, kinetic energy and vortex ring trajectories can be derived. Based on the prediction on the dynamic fluxes fed into the leading vortex ring, an analytical model for the pinch-off process is subsequently developed.