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Control of confined vortex breakdown with partial rotating lids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2013

L. Mununga ,
D. Lo Jacono ,
J. N. Sørensen ,
T. Leweke ,
M. C. Thompson  and
K. Hourigan
L. Mununga
Affiliation:
Fluids Laboratory for Aeronautical and Industrial Research (FLAIR), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia
D. Lo Jacono
Affiliation:
Fluids Laboratory for Aeronautical and Industrial Research (FLAIR), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia
J. N. Sørensen
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, DK-2800, Denmark
T. Leweke
Affiliation:
Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Équilibre (IRPHÉ), UMR 6594 CNRS / Universités Aix-Marseille I & II, 49 rue Frédéric Joliot-Curie, B.P. 146, F-13384 Marseille CEDEX 13, France
M. C. Thompson*
Affiliation:
Fluids Laboratory for Aeronautical and Industrial Research (FLAIR), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia Division of Biological Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia
K. Hourigan
Affiliation:
Fluids Laboratory for Aeronautical and Industrial Research (FLAIR), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia Division of Biological Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia
*
†Email address for correspondence: mark.thompson@monash.edu
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Abstract

Experiments were conducted to determine the effectiveness of controlling vortex breakdown in a confined cylindrical vessel using a small rotating disk, which was flush-mounted into the opposite endwall to the rotating endwall driving the primary recirculating flow. The results show that the control disk, with relatively little power input, can modify the azimuthal and axial flow significantly, changing the entire flow structure in the cylinder. Co-rotation was found to precipitate vortex breakdown onset whereas counter-rotation delays it. Furthermore, for the Reynolds-number range over which breakdown normally exists, co-rotation increases the bubble radial and axial dimensions, while shifting the bubble in the upstream direction. By contrast, counter-rotation tends to reduce the size of the bubble, or completely suppress it, while shifting the bubble in the downstream direction. These effects are amplified substantially by the use of larger control disks and higher rotation ratios. A series of numerical simulations close to the onset Reynolds number reveals that the control disk acts to generate a rotation-rate-invariant local positive or negative azimuthal vorticity source away from the immediate vicinity of the control disk but upstream of breakdown. Advection of this source along streamlines modifies the strength of the azimuthal vorticity ring, which effectively controls whether the flow reverses on the axis, and thus, in turn, whether vortex breakdown occurs. The vorticity source generated by the control disk scales approximately linearly with rotation ratio and cubically with disk diameter; this allows the observed variation of the critical Reynolds number to be approximately predicted.

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Flow Control: Flow Control Vortex Flows: Vortex breakdown Vortex Flows: Vortex Flows
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 738 , 10 January 2014 , pp. 5 - 33
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©2013 Cambridge University Press 

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