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The stability of countercurrent mixing layers in circular jets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

P. J. Strykowski  and
D. L. Niccum
P. J. Strykowski
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
D. L. Niccum
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Abstract

A spatially developing countercurrent mixing layer was established experimentally by applying suction to the periphery of an axisymmetric jet. A laminar mixing region was studied in detail for a velocity ratio R = ΔU/2U between 1 and 1.5, where ΔU describes the intensity of the shear across the layer and U is the average speed of the two streams. Above a critical velocity ratio Rr = 1.32 the shear layer displays energetic oscillations at a discrete frequency which are the result of very organized axisymmetric vortex structures in the mixing layer. The spatial order of the primary vortices inhibits the pairing process and dramatically alters the spatial development of the shear layer downstream. Consequently, the turbulence level in the jet core is significantly reduced, as is the decay rate of the mean velocity on the jet centreline. The response of the shear layer to controlled external forcing indicates that the shear layer oscillations at supercritical velocity ratios are self-excited. The experimentally determined critical velocity ratio of 1.32, established for very thin axisymmetric shear layers, compares favourably with the theoretically predicted value of 1.315 for the transition from convective to absolute instability in plane mixing layers (Huerre & Monkewitz 1985).

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 227 , June 1991 , pp. 309 - 343
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© 1991 Cambridge University Press

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