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The near-wake of an oscillating trailing edge: mechanisms of periodic and aperiodic response

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

A. Lotfy  and
D. Rockwell
A. Lotfy
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, 356 Packard Laboratory no. 19, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA
D. Rockwell
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, 356 Packard Laboratory no. 19, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA
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Abstract

This investigation addresses the unsteady wake from a blunt trailing edge subjected to controlled perturbations. The relationship between the structure of the near wake, the surface loading on the edge, and the motion of the edge is characterized by flow visualization in conjunction with velocity and pressure measurements. The response of the near wake can be classified into two general categories: a modulated wake, characterized by ordered variations in the near-wake flow structure over a number of cycles of oscillation of the trailing edge; and a phase-locked wake, whereby the near-wake structure does not change from cycle to cycle of the edge oscillation. For the modulated wake, there are large, repetitive excursions of the near-wake vortex pattern in the stream wise direction due to coexistence of the self-excited global instability of the wake and the applied excitation. These excursions can have an amplitude two orders of magnitude larger than the amplitude of the edge motion. The duration of these excursions, in relation to the cyclic motion of the trailing edge, is deterministic. For the phase-locked wake, small changes of the edge oscillation frequency produce large changes in the phase shift of the initially formed vortex from the edge. These phase shifts are due to changes in the times required for vortex formation and departure from the near wake. The corresponding mechanisms are interpreted in terms of the crucial topological features of the near wake and a phase clock concept.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 251 , June 1993 , pp. 173 - 201
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© 1993 Cambridge University Press

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