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The separating flow in a plane asymmetric diffuser with 8.5° opening angle: mean flow and turbulence statistics, temporal behaviour and flow structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2009

OLLE TÖRNBLOM ,
BJÖRN LINDGREN  and
ARNE V. JOHANSSON
OLLE TÖRNBLOM*
Affiliation:
KTH Mechanics, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
BJÖRN LINDGREN
Affiliation:
KTH Mechanics, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
ARNE V. JOHANSSON
Affiliation:
KTH Mechanics, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
*
†Email address for correspondence: olle@mech.kth.se
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Abstract

The flow in a plane asymmetric diffuser with an opening angle of 8.5° has been studied experimentally using time-resolving stereoscopic particle image velocimetry. The inlet condition is fully developed turbulent channel flow at a Reynolds number based on the inlet channel height and bulk velocity of Re = 38000. All mean velocity and Reynolds stress components have been measured. A separated region is found on the inclined wall with a mean separation point at 7.4 and a mean reattachment point at 30.5 inlet channel heights downstream the diffuser inlet (the inclined wall ends 24.8 channel heights downstream the inlet). Instantaneous flow reversal never occurs upstream of five inlet channel heights but may occur far downstream the point of reattachment. A strong shear layer in which high rates of turbulence production are found is located in a region outside the separation. The static wall pressure through the diffuser is presented and used in an analysis of the balance between pressure forces and momentum change. It is demonstrated that production of turbulence causes a major part of the losses of mean flow kinetic energy. The character of the large turbulence structures is investigated by means of time-resolved sequences of velocity fields and spatial auto-correlation functions. Pronounced inclined structures are observed in the spanwise velocity and it is suggested that these are due to the legs of hairpin-like vortices.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 636 , 10 October 2009 , pp. 337 - 370
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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Present address: Studsvik Nuclear AB, SE-611 82, Nyköping, Sweden

Present address: Scania CV AB, SE-151 87, Södertälje, Sweden

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