Experimental observations of an unsteady detached shear layer in enclosed corotating disk flow
Experimental observations of an unsteady detached shear layer in enclosed corotating disk flow
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DOI:
10.1063/1.858756
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发表时间:
1993-10
影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
J. Humphrey;D. Gor
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作者:
J. Humphrey;D. Gor
The flow in the unobstructed space between a pair of disks corotating at high speed in a fixed cylindrical enclosure can be divided into five regions amenable to theoretical analysis [C. A. Schuler, Ph.D. Thesis, University of California at Berkeley (1990); C. A. Schuler et al., Phys. Fluids A 2, 1760 (1990)]. One of these, region III in Fig. 2, is an axially‐aligned detached shear layer predicted by the analysis to be located at rIII/R2≊Γ1/2 and of thickness δIII/R2≊(2 Re)−1/4, where R2 is the radius of the disks, Re is the Reynolds number based on R2 and the tip speed of rotation of the disks (ωR2), and Γ is an experimentally determined constant. Through viscous diffusion, the detached shear layer allows the transition that must take place between the bulk of the three‐dimensional flow in the interdisk space (region II) and the two‐dimensional flow in solid body rotation surrounding the hub that spins the disks (region IV). Present findings, based on flow visualization, confirm these hitherto untested t...