Acoustically generated vorticity in an internal flow
Using systematic asymptotic methods, the authors formulate a mathematical model to describe the initiation and evolution of intense unsteady vorticity in a low-Mach-number weakly viscous internal flow sustained by mass addition through the sidewall of a long narrow cylinder. An axial acoustic velocity disturbance, generated by a prescribed harmonic transient endwall velocity, interacts with the basically inviscid rotational steady injected flow to generate time-dependent vorticity at the sidewall. In appropriate ranges of Reynolds number, Mach number \(M\) and frequency, the intense vorticity penetrates far into the chamber due to the convection by steady radial velocity field. The amplitude and distribution of the vorticity is impacted by weak viscous and nonlinear effects. Numerical experiments based on the equations derived are used to demonstrate that nonlinear axial convection is a source of spatial wave amplitude decay in addition to more familiar effects of viscous diffusion. There are parameter ranges of Mach number, driving frequency and Reynolds number for which vorticity is really confined to weakly viscous acoustic boundary layers, thin compared to the radius of the cylinder, but larger than those discussed by \textit{J. D. Baum} and \textit{J. N. Levine} [J. Comput. Phys. 58, 1-28 (1985; Zbl 0589.76085)]. The amplitude of the transient vorticity distributions described in the present work, are \(O(M^{-1})\) larger than that of the Culick steady solution [\textit{F. E. C. Culick}, AIAA J. 32, No. 1, 146-169 (1994; Zbl 0804.76074)]. This result has important consequences for applications of the theory to solid rocket motor combustion.
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