Stability of a jet in crossflow
Abstract
We have produced a fluid dynamics video with data from Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) of a jet in crossflow at several low values of the velocity inflow ratio R. We show that, as the velocity ratio R increases, the flow evolves from simple periodic vortex shedding (a limit cycle) to more complicated quasi-periodic behavior, before finally exhibiting asymmetric chaotic motion. We also perform a stability analysis just above the first bifurcation, where R is the bifurcation parameter. Using the overlap of the direct and the adjoint eigenmodes, we confirm that the first instability arises in the shear layer downstream of the jet orifice on the boundary of the backflow region just behind the jet.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1010.3766,
title = {Stability of a jet in crossflow},
author = {Miloš Ilak and Philipp Schlatter and Shervin Bagheri and Mattias Chevalier and Dan S. Henningson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.3766},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Two fluid dynamics videos, high-resolution 1024x768 (~80MB), and low resolution 320x240 (~10MB), included in the ancillary files