Unsteady Swirling Flows Arising in Straight Tubes

Unsteady Flows in Turbines

Pressure fluctuations in swirling turbulent flows

We report measurements of pressure fluctuations in swirling turbulent flows

Unsteady swirling flow in an enclosed cylinder with reflectional symmetry

A numerical investigation of the multiple stable solutions found in confined swirling flows is presented. The flows consist of fluid in a completely filled cylinder driven by the constant corotation of the two end walls. When reflectional symmetry at the cylinder half-plane is imposed, the flow corresponds to that in a cylinder of half the height driven by the bottom end wall, with the top surf...

Unsteady Flow in Vertical, Converging Tubes

INTRODUCTION The discharge ofliquids from vertical tubes with various con­ traction geometries was studied via the unsteady Bernoulli equa­ tion. The temporal variations of the exit velocity and fluid level in the tube were found from the numerical integration of nonlin­ ear differential equations. Sudden, quadratic, and exponential contraction geometries were considered. For inlet to exit area...

The unstable spectrum of swirling gas flows

The asymptotic structure of the discrete spectrum of a compressible inviscid swirling flow with arbitrary radial distributions of density, pressure and velocity is described for disturbances with large wavenumbers. It is shown that discrete eigenmodes are unstable when a criterion derived by Eckhoff & Storesletten (1978) is satisfied. In general, these modes are characterized by a length scale ...