ISSN:
1089-7666
Quelle:
AIP Digital Archive
Thema:
Physik
Notizen:
For time t¯〈0, viscous fluid is in slow flow through a long straight axially symmetric tube whose radius, a¯, varies slowly with axial distance, x¯. When t¯=0 the tube is impulsively rotated about its axis with angular velocity, Ω¯, at which angular speed it is thereafter maintained. During the transition from zero angular velocity, when t¯〈0, to solid body rotation, when t¯→∞, the flow in the tube can briefly exhibit striking physical behavior, markedly different from the flow in the stationary tube. We present a linearization of the Navier–Stokes equations, valid when the Blasius parameter ε, which governs the magnitude of the inertial forces, tends to zero and the swirl parameter, λ, which is the ratio of a representative tube wall velocity, Ω¯a¯0, to a representative axial velocity, tends to infinity, with the product ελ2≡Γ held fixed. An analytic solution suitable for computation and valid for suitably large t¯ is presented and streamlines are plotted for a typical diverging and a typical converging tube at time t¯=0.6a¯02/ν when Γ=40. The relevance of the results to the phenomenon of vortex breakdown in tubes is discussed. © 2000 American Institute of Physics.
Materialart:
Digitale Medien
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1320831
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