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Flow visualization of steady streaming in oscillatory flow through a bifurcating tube

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

F. R. Haselton  and
P. W. Scherer
F. R. Haselton
Affiliation:
Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 Present Address: Pulmonary Circulation Center, Vanderbilt University, B-1318 – Medical Center North, Nashville, Tennessee 37232.
P. W. Scherer
Affiliation:
Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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Abstract

A steady streaming displacement of fluid elements is observed to occur during oscillatory flow through a Y-shaped tube bifurcation model at Womersley and Reynolds numbers that can exist in the human bronchial tree. The cause of the displacement is the effect of the asymmetric geometry on the oscillating velocity vector field. The steady streaming displacement is greatest for fluid elements that experience the highest velocity through the bifurcation junction. The maximum displacement observed increases with Re and a up to a Re of about 100 and a of about 5, after which a levelling off and gradual decline occur. Photographs of low-Re and low-a: cxpcrimcnts show the effects of secondary components of the steady-streaming displacement field which contribute to a complex circulation.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 123 , October 1982 , pp. 315 - 333
Copyright
© 1982 Cambridge University Press

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