Consider a three-dimensional vortex sheet in inviscid, incompressible flow which is irrotational away from the sheet. We derive an equation for the evolution of a vortex sheet in Lagrangian coordinates, i.e. an equation that is restricted to the sheet itself and is analogous to the Birkhoff-Rott equation for a two-dimensional (planar) sheet. This general equation is specialized to sheets with a...

Combustion instability is a process which involves unsteady chemical kinetic, fluid mechanic, and acoustic processes. It can lead to unstable behavior and be detrimental in ways ranging from faster part fatigue to catastrophic system failure. In terms of combustion methodology, combustion instability has been a key issue for lean premixed combustion. The primary objective of this work is to imp...

New exact solutions, obtained for centrifugal convection of a compressible fluid in pipes and annular pipes, explain axially elongated counterflow and energy separation—poorly understood phenomena occurring in vortex devices, e.g., hydrocyclones and Ranque tubes. Centrifugal acceleration ~which can be up to 10 times gravity in practical vortex tubes!, combined with an axial gradient of temperat...

Submitted for the DFD13 Meeting of The American Physical Society Axial Evolution of Helical Modes in Reacting Swirl Flow MIKE AGUILAR, BENJAMIN EMERSON, DAVID NOBLE, TIM LIEUWEN, Georgia Institute of Technology — The swirling jet is a common method of flame stabilization for ground power and aviation combustors. The hydrodynamic stability characteristics of high Reynolds number, reacting, swirl...

The numerical flow prediction of highly complex flow systems, such as the aerothermal flow through an entire aircraft gas turbine engine, requires the application of multiple specialized flow solvers, which have to run simultaneously in order to capture unsteady multicomponent effects. The different mathematical approaches of different flow solvers, especially large eddy simulation (LES) and Re...

conveying velocity, pipe wear, and particle degradation. An experimental study has Yuji Tomita addressed the characteristics of swirling flow pneumatic conveying (SFPC) for the Professor, total pressure drop, solid flow patterns, power consumption, and additional pressure Department of Mechanical Engineering, drop. Polystyrene, polyethylene, and polyvinyl particles with mean diameters of 1.7, K...

ROSS |7] is an object-oriented language developed for building knowledge-based simulations [4l. SWIRL |5, 6] is a program written in ROSS that embeds knowledge about defensive and offensive air battle strategies. Given an initial configuration of military forces, SWIRL simulates the resulting air battle. We have implemented ROSS and SWIRL in several different Lisp environments. We report upon t...

Characteristics of rotor blade tip clearance flow in axial compressors can significantly affect their performance and stable operation. It may also increase blade vibrations and cause detrimental noises. Therefore, this paper is contributed to investigate tip leakage flow in a low speed isolated axial compressor rotor blades row. Simulations are carried out on near-stall condition, which is val...

Numerical modeling methods have been used to study the effect of an emergency stop fuel mixture supply through individual burners on aerodynamics flow in combustion chamber a power boiler. The performed computational experiments made it possible obtain main aerodynamic characteristics heat and mass transfer processes (full velocity vector, pressure, kinetic energy turbulence dissipation energy)...