Numerical study of cavitation regimes in flow over a circular cylinder

DOI10.1017/JFM.2019.971zbMATH Open1460.76075arXiv1911.03575OpenAlexW3104442945MaRDI QIDQ5207693FDOQ5207693

Authors: Filipe Brandão, Mrugank Bhatt, Krishnan Mahesh 

Publication date: 13 January 2020

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

Abstract: Cavitating flow over a circular cylinder is investigated over a range of cavitation numbers for both laminar and turbulent regimes. We observe non-cavitating, cyclic and transitional cavitation regimes with reduction in freestream $sigma$. The cavitation inside the Karman vortices in the cyclic regime, is significantly altered by the onset of "condensation front" propagation in the transitional regime. At the transition, an order of magnitude jump in shedding Strouhal number is observed as the dominant frequency shifts from periodic vortex shedding in the cyclic regime, to irregular-regular vortex shedding in the transitional regime. In addition, a peak in pressure fluctuations, and a maximum in St versus $sigma$ based on cavity length are observed at the transition. Shedding characteristics in each regime are discussed using dynamic mode decomposition. It is demonstrated that the condensation fronts observed in the transitional regime are supersonic (referred as "condensation shocks"). In the presence of NCG, multiple condensation shocks in a given cycle are required for complete cavity condensation and detachment, as compared to a single condensation shock when only vapor is present. This is explained by the reduction in pressure ratio across the shock in the presence of NCG effectively reducing its strength. In addition, at $sigma=0.85$ (near transition from the cyclic to the transitional regime), presence of NCG suppresses the low frequency irregular-regular vortex shedding. Vorticity transport at $Re=3900$, in the transitional regime, indicates that the region of attached cavity is nearly two-dimensional with very low vorticity, affecting Karman shedding in the near wake. In addition, the boundary-layer separation point is found to be strongly dependent on the amounts of vapor and gas in the freestream for both laminar and turbulent regimes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.03575

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zbMATH Keywords

shock wavesmultiphase flowcavitation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Jets and cavities, cavitation, free-streamline theory, water-entry problems, airfoil and hydrofoil theory, sloshing (76B10) Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05)

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