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A comment on the flat plate leading edge shape on laminar-turbulent transition
Antoš, Pavel ; Jonáš, Pavel ; Procházka, Pavel P.
Laminar-turbulent transition region is investigated in zero pressure gradient boundary layers developing on flat plates with different shapes of leading edges namely with the elliptical profile; the superelliptical one and with the thin circle profile. The mean flow field characteristics are presented and discussed. Near downstream from the leading edge are mean velocity profiles very similar to the Blasius solution in all compared configurations. The dramatic effect of the leading edge is ascertained in the beginning of the skin friction coefficient deflection from the course after Blasius solution. The start of deflection is moving downstream in sequence: elliptic – super-elliptic – circle shape. The length of the transitional region shortens in the opposed sequence.
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Stereoscopic PIV measurement of boundary layer affected by DBD actuator
Procházka, Pavel P. ; Uruba, Václav
The effect of ionic wind generated by plasma actuator on developed boundary layer inside a narrow channel was investigated recently. Since the main investigated plane was parallel to the channel axis, the description of flow field was not evaluated credibly. This paper is dealing with cross-section planes downstream the actuator measured via 3D time-resolved PIV. The actuator position is in spanwise or in streamwise orientation so that ionic wind is blown in the same direction as the main flow or in opposite direction or perpendicularly. The interaction between boundary layer and ionic wind is evaluated for three different velocities of main flow and several parameters of plasma actuation (steady and unsteady regime, frequency etc.). Statistical properties of the flow are shown as well as dynamical behaviour of arising longitudinal vortices are discussed via phase-locked measurement and decomposition method.
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Stochastic regimes in very-low-frequency fluidic oscillator
Tesař, Václav
Paper discusses interesting unexpected stochastic regimes discovered in a fluidic oscillator designed for operation at very low oscillation frequencies - without the inconvenience of the long feedback loops needed in standard low-frequency oscillator designs. The new oscillator contains a pair of bistable turn-down active valves operating in anti-parallel — essentially analogous to Abraham & Bloch electric “multibrateur” invented in 1919. Three different self-excited oscillation regimes were found. In the order of increasing supplied flow rate, these regimes are characterised by: (A) generation of stochastic-duration multi-pulse packs, (B) generation of individual pulses with a degree of periodicity, and (C) regime with randomly appearing flow pulses separated by intervals of the order of seconds.
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Fluid mechanics of additive manufacturing of metal objects by accretion of droplets – a survey
Tesař, Václav
Paper presents a survey of principles of additive manufacturing of metal objects by accretion of molten metal droplets, focusing on fluid-mechanical problems that deserve being investigated. The main problem is slowness of manufacturing due to necessarily small size of added droplets. Increase of droplet repetition rate calls for basic research of the phenomena that take place inside and around the droplets: ballistics of their flight, internal flowfield with heat and mass transfer, oscillation of surfaces, and the ways to elimination of satellite droplets.
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Fluidic low-frequency oscillator consisting of load-switched diverter and a pair of vortex chambers
Tesař, Václav ; Peszyński, K. ; Smyk, E.
Paper discusses a new configuration of fluidic oscillators, a subject of recent Patent application. There is some similarity with the standard Warren oscillator with its bistable jet-deflection diverter and two feedbacks – which is not suitable for situations demanding very low oscillation frequency. For these conditions the new design replaces jet-deflection switching in the diverter by load-switching effects, with the gradually increased loading by spin-up of fluid in the vortex chambers. The spin-up time also provides the needed time delays. Behaviour is characterised by the oscillation frequency increasing with increasing fluid flow rate – for which was derived a surprisingly simple theoretical solution.
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Experimental research of heterogeneous nuclei in superheated steam
Bartoš, Ondřej ; Kolovratník, M. ; Šmíd, Bohuslav ; Hrubý, Jan
A mobile steam expansion chamber has been developed to investigate experimentally homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation processes in steam, both in the laboratory and at power plants using the steam withdrawn from the steam turbine. The purpose of the device is to provide new insight into the physics of nonequilibrium wet steam formation, which is one of the factors limiting the efficiency and reliability of steam turbines. The expanded steam or a mixture of steam with a non-condensable gas rapidly expands in the expansion chamber. Due to adiabatic cooling, the temperature drops below the dew point of the steam at a given pressure. When reaching a sufficiently high supersaturation, droplets are nucleated. By tuning the supersaturation in the so-called nucleation pulse, particles of various size ranges can be activated. This fact is used in the present study to measure the aerosol particles present in the air. Homogeneous nucleation was negligible in this case. The experiment demonstrates the functionality of the device, data acquisition system and data evaluation methods.
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Improvements of the experimental apparatus for measurement of the surface tension of supercooled liquids using horizontal capillary tube
Vinš, Václav ; Hošek, Jan ; Hykl, Jiří ; Hrubý, Jan
An experimental apparatus with a horizontal capillary tube for measurement of the surface tension of supercooled liquids was designed and tested in the previous study [V. Vinš et al., EPJ Web Conf. 92, 02108 (2015)]. In this work, recent modifications of both the experimental setup and the measurement analysis are described. The main aim is to improve the accuracy and the reproducibility of measured surface tension and to achieve higher degrees of supercooling. Among other modifications, the optical setup observing the liquid meniscus at the open end of the horizontal capillary tube together with the video analysis were thoroughly revised. The modified apparatus was used for the measurement of surface tension of supercooled water at temperatures down to – 11 °C. The new data have a lower scatter compared to the previous horizontal measurements and show a good agreement with the other data obtained with a different measurement technique based on the modified capillary rise method.
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Molecular Simulations of the Vapor–Liquid Phase Interfaces of Pure Water Modeled with the SPC/E and the TIP4P/2005 Molecular Models
Vinš, Václav ; Celný, David ; Planková, Barbora ; Němec, Tomáš ; Duška, Michal ; Hrubý, Jan
In our previous study [Planková et al., EPJWeb. Conf. 92, 02071 (2015)], several molecular simulations of vapor-liquid phase interfaces for pure water were performed using the DL POLY Classic software. The TIP4P/2005 molecular model was successfully used for the modeling of the density profile and the thickness of phase interfaces together with the temperature dependence of the surface tension. In the current study, the extended simple point charge (SPC/E) model for water together with TIP4P/2005 were employed for the investigation of vapor-liquid phase interfaces over a wide temperature range from 250 K to 600 K. Results of the new simulations are in a good agreement with most of the literature data. TIP4P/2005 provides better results for the saturated liquid density with its maximum close to 275 K, while SPC/E predicts slightly better saturated vapor density. Both models give qualitatively correct representation for the surface tension of water.
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Jet flow issuing from an axisymmetric pipe-cavity-orifice nozzle
Broučková, Zuzana ; Pušková, P. ; Trávníček, Zdeněk ; Šafařík, P.
Axisymmetric air jet flow is experimentally investigated under passive flow control. Jet issues from a pipe (inner diameter 10mm, length 150 mm) equipped with an axisymmetric cavity at the end. Cavity operates as resonator creating self-sustained acoustic excitations. Mechanism of excitations is complex. Experimental methods were: flow visualization, microphone measurements and velocity measurements by the Pitot probe. Power spectral density (PSD) and sound pressure level (SPL) were evaluated from microphone measurements. Jet Reynolds number ranged Re = 1600–18 000. Peaks in PSD indicated a function of the resonator. The most effective acoustic response was found at higher Re. Results demonstrate effects of the control: mixing and velocity decay along the axis are intensified. It causes shortening of the transition region. However, an inverse proportionality of the velocity decay in the fully developed region is not changed. Momentum and kinetic energy fluxes decrease more intensively.
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Mathematical modeling of planar and spherical vapor–liquid phase interfaces for multicomponent fluids
Celný, David ; Vinš, Václav ; Planková, Barbora ; Hrubý, Jan
Methods for accurate modeling of phase interfaces are important for understanding natural processes and application in technology. In particular, prediction of the non-equilibrium phase transition requires the knowledge of the strongly curved phase interfaces of microscopic droplets. In our work, we focus on the spherical vapor–liquid interfaces for binary mixtures. We developed a computational method able to determine the density and concentration profiles. The fundamentals of our approach lie in the gradient theory, allowing to transcribe the functional formulation into a system of Euler-Langrange equations. System is then modified into a shape suitable for iterative computation. For this task, we employ the Newton-Raphson and the shooting methods ensuring a good convergence speed. For the thermodynamic properties, the PC–SAFT EoS is used. We determined the density and concentration profiles of the binary mixture C O 2 & C 9 H 20 for spherical phase interfaces at various saturation factors.
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