Turbulence generated by an array of opposed piston-driven synthetic jet actuators
K. Yamamoto, T. Watanabe, K. Nagata
Turbulence generated by an array of opposed piston-driven synthetic jet actuators
Experiments in Fluids, 63 35 2022
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Abstract
This paper investigates turbulence generated by an array of opposed piston-driven synthetic jet actuators in a closed chamber. Each actuator intermittently generates supersonic jets with four orifice holes, and the interaction of 32 supersonic jets produces turbulence. Velocity measurement is conducted with particle image velocimetry using oil mist as the tracer particles, which are internally generated by the synthetic jet actuators. The turbulence with a small mean velocity is generated at the central region of the chamber, where the root-mean-square (rms) velocity fluctuations are also almost uniform in space. The rms velocity fluctuations around the chamber center are about 1.2 times larger in the jet direction than in other directions. The strongly intermittent nature of supersonic synthetic jets causes large-scale intermittency of turbulence. The turbulent Reynolds number and turbulent Mach number reach O(10^3) and O(10^−2), respectively, at the chamber center. Although the turbulent Mach number at the chamber center is not large, the generation process of turbulence due to the supersonic jets is strongly influenced by compressibility. Therefore, density variations exist in turbulence, where the shadowgraph image exhibits the brightness distribution with a characteristic length scale related to the Kolmogorov scale. The shape of longitudinal velocity auto-correlation functions and the relation between the turbulent Reynolds number and velocity derivative flatness agree well with previous studies on incompressible turbulence.
日本語訳 (DeepL翻訳)
対向するピストン駆動式のシンセティックジェットアクチュエータアレイにより生成された乱流
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