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Numerical simulations of asymmetric mixing in planar shear flows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2006

F. F. Grinstein ,
E. S. Oran  and
J. P. Boris
F. F. Grinstein
Affiliation:
Berkeley Research Associates, PO Box 852, Springfield, VA 22152, USA
E. S. Oran
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Computational Physics, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 20375, USA
J. P. Boris
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Computational Physics, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 20375, USA
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Abstract

Numerical simulations were performed of the evolution of the Kelvin–Helmholtz instability in planar, free shear layers, resulting from coflow past a splitter plate. The calculations solved the time-dependent inviscid compressible conservation equations. New algorithms were developed and tested for inflow and outflow boundary conditions. Since no turbulence subgrid modelling was included, only the large-scale features of the flow are described. The transition from laminar flow was triggered by transverse pressure gradients and subsequent vorticity fluctuations at the shear layer, near the tip of the splitter plate. The calculations were performed for a range of free-stream velocity ratios and sizes of the chamber enclosing the system. The simulations showed that the resulting mixing layers have more of the faster fluid than the slower fluid entrained in the roll-ups. This effect is in general agreement with the results of recent splitter-plate experiments of Koochesfahani, Dimotakis & Broadwell (1983). The calculated mixing asymmetry is more apparent when the velocity ratio of the two streams is larger, and does not depend significantly on the separation between the walls of the chamber.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 165 , April 1986 , pp. 201 - 220
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© 1986 Cambridge University Press

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