LAPSE:2021.0356
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LAPSE:2021.0356
An Experimental Study of Turbulent Mixing in Channel Flow Past a Grid
May 11, 2021
Grid turbulence is considered to be a canonical case of turbulent flow. In the presented paper, the flow structure is analyzed from the point of view of mixing properties, where vortical structures and their properties play a significant role. That is why the effect of various length-scales in turbulence is studied separately. The experimental study uses the Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) method. The original method for spatial spectrum evaluation is applied. Results on vortex spatial spectrum and isotropy are presented. The scaling of turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) is measured; furthermore, the TKE is decomposed according to the length-scales of the fluctuations. By this method, we found that the decay of TKE associated with the smallest length-scales is more sensitive to the Reynolds number than that at larger length-scales. The TKE at the largest investigated length-scales decays more slowly. The turbulence decay-law is studied for various Reynolds numbers. The second and fourth statistical moments of vorticity are evaluated at various Reynolds numbers and distances from the grid. The isotropy is investigated in the sense of ratio of fluctuations in stream-wise to span-wise directions as the used data are captured using the planar PIV method. The full 3D fluctuation invariants were investigated in a representative position by means of the Stereo-PIV method.
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3D scanning, Agrawal decomposition, grid turbulence, Mixing, particle image velocimetry, turbulent kinetic energy
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Duda D, Yanovych V, Uruba V. An Experimental Study of Turbulent Mixing in Channel Flow Past a Grid. (2021). LAPSE:2021.0356
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Duda D: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of West Bohemia, 306 14 Pilsen, Czech Republic [ORCID]
Yanovych V: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of West Bohemia, 306 14 Pilsen, Czech Republic [ORCID]
Uruba V: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of West Bohemia, 306 14 Pilsen, Czech Republic; Institute of Thermomechanics, Czech Academy of Sciences, 182 00 Prague, Czech Republic [ORCID]
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Processes
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8
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11
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E1355
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2020
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2020-10-27
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2227-9717
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