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EXPERIMENTS IN FLUIDS
卷 63, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
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DOI: 10.1007/s00348-021-03364-8
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- European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant [846648]
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [846648] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
In this study, we investigate the unsteady forcing of turbulent flow in a well-stirred reactor using opposing arrays of pitched-blade impellers. We find that unsteady forcing substantially increases the unsteady kinetic energy and energy dissipation of the turbulence, leading to improved homogeneity and isotropy of the flow. The forcing period must be matched to the angular speed to optimize the flow, and the injection of energy through unsteady forcing is dominated by axial shear generated across impellers.
We investigate the unsteady forcing of turbulent flow in a well-stirred reactor using opposing arrays of pitched-blade impellers which randomly and independently reverse rotation. We systematically explore the dependence of the large-scale motions and the homogeneity and isotropy of the turbulence upon the forcing. We identify three dimensionless control parameters: the source fraction (the fraction of time spent in clockwise motion), the dimensionless forcing period and an impeller Reynolds number. We find the timescale of unsteady motion corresponds to the forcing period T, the average period of impeller reversal, independently of the impeller angular speed Omega and source fraction. As in jet-stirred tanks, unsteady forcing substantially increases the unsteady kinetic energy, energy dissipation, integral length scale and Taylor microscale Reynolds number (R-lambda) and improves the homogeneity and isotropy of the flow, provided the source fraction is chosen optimally and the forcing period is sufficiently large (Omega T > 10(3)); impeller Reynolds number has a relatively small influence. The forcing period must be matched to angular speed: decreasing the forcing period below this threshold results in a less intense, more inhomogeneous turbulent flow. Spectra of two-point velocity increments demonstrate that unsteady energy injection is dominated by axial shear generated across impellers and becomes less prominent at smaller scales. However, even at R-lambda approximate to 354, the signature of this unsteady forcing can still be detected in near-dissipation-range statistics. These observations provide insight into optimisation of forcing and the mechanism of energy transfer when using unsteady forcing to generate turbulence in confined vessels. [GRAPHICS] .
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