Separated rows structure of vortex streets behind triangular objects

DOI10.1017/JFM.2018.993MaRDI QIDQ4611544zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ildoo Kim

Publication date 21 January 2019

Published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00203

zbMATH Keywords

vortex sheddingvortex breakdownvortex instability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Flow control and optimization for incompressible viscous fluids (76D55) Viscous vortex flows (76D17)

Abstract: We discuss two distinct spatial structures of vortex streets. The `conventional mushroom' structure is commonly discuss in many experimental studies, but the exotic `separated rows' structure is characterized by a thin irrotational fluid between two rows of vortices. In a two-dimensional soap film channel, we generated the exotic vortex arrangement by using triangular objects. This setup allows us to vary the thickness of boundary layers and their separation distance independently. We find that the separated rows structure appears only when the boundary layer thickness is less than 40% of the separation distance. We also discuss two physical mechanisms of the breakdown of vortex structures. The conventional mushroom structure decays due to the action of viscosity, and the separated rows structure decays because its arrangement is hydrodynamically unstable.

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