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Effect of hinged leaflets on vortex pair generation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2013

Prashant Das ,
R. N. Govardhan  and
J. H. Arakeri
Prashant Das
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India
R. N. Govardhan*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India
J. H. Arakeri
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India
*
†Email address for correspondence: raghu@mecheng.iisc.ernet.in
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Abstract

We experimentally study the effect of having hinged leaflets at the jet exit on the formation of a two-dimensional counter-rotating vortex pair. A piston–cylinder mechanism is used to generate a starting jet from a high-aspect-ratio channel into a quiescent medium. For a rigid exit, with no leaflets at the channel exit, the measurements at a central plane show that the trailing jet in the present case is never detached from the vortex pair, and keeps feeding into the latter, unlike in the axisymmetric case. Passive flexibility is introduced in the form of rigid leaflets or flaps that are hinged at the exit of the channel, with the flaps initially parallel to the channel walls. The experimental arrangement closely approximates the limiting case of a free-to-rotate rigid flap with negligible structural stiffness, damping and flap inertia, as these limiting structural properties permit the largest flap openings. Using this arrangement, we start the flow and measure the flap kinematics and the vorticity fields for different flap lengths and piston velocity programs. The typical motion of the flaps involves a rapid opening and a subsequent more gradual return to its initial position, both of which occur when the piston is still moving. The initial opening of the flaps can be attributed to an excess pressure that develops in the channel when the flow starts, due to the acceleration that has to be imparted to the fluid slug between the flaps. In the case with flaps, two additional pairs of vortices are formed because of the motion of the flaps, leading to the ejection of a total of up to three vortex pairs from the hinged exit. The flaps’ length (${L}_{f} $) is found to significantly affect flap motions when plotted using the conventional time scale $L/ d$, where $L$ is the piston stroke and $d$ is the channel width. However, with a newly defined time scale based on the flap length ($L/ {L}_{f} $), we find a good collapse of all the measured flap motions irrespective of flap length and piston velocity for an impulsively started piston motion. The maximum opening angle in all these impulsive velocity program cases, irrespective of the flap length, is found to be close to 15°. Even though the flap kinematics collapses well with $L/ {L}_{f} $, there are differences in the distribution of the ejected vorticity even for the same $L/ {L}_{f} $. Such a redistribution of vorticity can lead to important changes in the overall properties of the flow, and it gives us a better understanding of the importance of exit flexibility in such flows.

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Wakes/Jets: Jets Biological Fluid Dynamics: Propulsion Vortex Flows: Vortex Flows
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 730 , 10 September 2013 , pp. 626 - 658
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©2013 Cambridge University Press 

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