期刊
JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS
卷 831, 期 -, 页码 779-825出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2017.664
关键词
shock waves; transition to turbulence; turbulent mixing
资金
- National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award [1451994]
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Research Program (AFOSR-YIP) [FA9550-13-1-0185]
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [1451994] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The effect of initial conditions on transition to turbulence is studied in a variable-ensity shock-driven flow. Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (RMI) evolution of fluid interfaces with two different imposed initial perturbations is observed before and after interaction with a second shock reflected from the end wall of a shock tube (reshock). The first perturbation is a predominantly single-mode long-wavelength interface which is formed by inclining the entire tube to 80 degrees relative to the horizontal, yielding an amplitude-to-wavelength ratio, eta/lambda = 0.088, and thus can be considered as half the wavelength of a triangular wave. The second interface is multi-mode, and contains additional shorter-wavelength perturbations due to the imposition of shear and buoyancy on the inclined perturbation of the first case. In both cases, the interface consists of a nitrogen-acetone mixture as the light gas over carbon dioxide as the heavy gas (Atwood number, A similar to 0.22) and the shock Mach number is M approximate to 1.55. The initial condition was characterized through Proper Orthogonal Decomposition and density energy spectra from a large set of initial condition images. The evolving density and velocity fields are measured simultaneously using planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) and particle image velocimetry (PIV) techniques. Density, velocity, and density-velocity cross-statistics are calculated using ensemble averaging to investigate the effects of additional modes on the mixing and turbulence quantities. The density and velocity data show that a distinct memory of the initial conditions is maintained in the flow before interaction with reshock. After reshock, the influence of the long-wavelength inclined perturbation present in both initial conditions is still apparent, but the distinction between the two cases becomes less evident as smaller scales are present even in the single-mode case. Several methods are used to calculate the Reynolds number and turbulence length scales, which indicate a transition to a more turbulent state after reshock. Further evidence of transition to turbulence after reshock is observed in the velocity and density fluctuation spectra, where a scaling close to k(-5/3) is observed for almost one decade, and in the enstrophy fluctuation spectra, where a scaling close to k(1/3) is observed for a similar range. Also, based on normalized cross correlation spectra, local isotropy is reached at lower wave numbers in the multi-mode case compared with the single-mode case before reshock. By breakdown of large scales to small scales after reshock, rapid decay can be observed in cross-correlation spectra in both cases.
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