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Wall-separation and vortex-breakdown zones in a solid-body rotation flow in a rotating finite-length straight circular pipe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2014

Zvi Rusak  and
Shixiao Wang
Zvi Rusak*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180-3590, USA
Shixiao Wang
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Auckland, 38 Princes Street, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand
*
†Email address for correspondence: rusakz@rpi.edu
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Abstract

The incompressible, inviscid and axisymmetric dynamics of perturbations on a solid-body rotation flow with a uniform axial velocity in a rotating, finite-length, straight, circular pipe are studied via global analysis techniques and numerical simulations. The investigation establishes the coexistence of both axisymmetric wall-separation and vortex-breakdown zones above a critical swirl level, ${\it\omega}_{1}$. We first describe the bifurcation diagram of steady-state solutions of the flow problem as a function of the swirl ratio ${\it\omega}$. We prove that the base columnar flow is a unique steady-state solution when ${\it\omega}$ is below ${\it\omega}_{1}$. This state is asymptotically stable and a global attractor of the flow dynamics. However, when ${\it\omega}>{\it\omega}_{1}$, we reveal, in addition to the base columnar flow, the coexistence of states that describe swirling flows around either centreline stagnant breakdown zones or wall quasi-stagnant zones, where both the axial and radial velocities vanish. We demonstrate that when ${\it\omega}>{\it\omega}_{1}$, the base columnar flow is a min–max point of an energy functional that governs the problem, while the swirling flows around the quasi-stagnant and stagnant zones are global and local minimizer states and become attractors of the flow dynamics. We also find additional min–max states that are transient attractors of the flow dynamics. Numerical simulations describe the evolution of perturbations on above-critical columnar states to either the breakdown or the wall-separation states. The growth of perturbations in both cases is composed of a linear stage of the evolution, with growth rates accurately predicted by the analysis of Wang & Rusak (Phys. Fluids, vol. 8, 1996a, pp. 1007–1016), followed by a stage of saturation to either one of the separation zone states. The wall-separation states have the same chance of appearing as that of vortex-breakdown states and there is no hysteresis loop between them. This is strikingly different from the dynamics of vortices with medium or narrow vortical core size in a pipe.

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Vortex Flows: Vortex breakdown Vortex Flows: Vortex dynamics Vortex Flows: Vortex Flows
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 759 , 25 November 2014 , pp. 321 - 359
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