Features of the supercritical transition in the wake of a circular cylinder

The features of the wake behind a uniform circular cylinder at Re = 200, which is just beyond the critical Reynolds number of 3-D transition, are investigated in detail by direct numerical simulations by solving 3-D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations using mixed spectral-spectral-element method. The high-order splitting algorithm based on the mixed stiffly stable scheme is employed in the time discretization. Due to the nonlinear evolution of the secondary instability of the wake, the spanwise modes with different wavelengths emerge. The spanwise characteristic length determines the transition features and global properties of the wake. The existence of the spanwise phase difference of the primary vortices shedding is confirmed by Fourier analysis of the time series of the spanwise vorticity and attributed. to the dominant spanwise mode. The spatial energy distributions of various modes and the velocity profiles in the near wake are obtained. The numerical results indicate that the near wake is in 3-D quasi-periodic laminar state with transitional behaviors at this supercritical Reynolds number.

Numerical estimate of the stability curve for the flow past a rotating cylinder

It is demonstrated that the primary instability of the wake of a two-dimensional circular cylinder rotating with constant angular velocity can be qualitatively well described by the Landau equation. The coefficients of the Landau equation are determined by means of numerical simulations for the Navier-Stokes equations. The critical Reynolds numbers, which depend on the angular velocity of the cylinder, are evaluated correctly by linear regression. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.

Numerical simulation of drop Marangoni migration under microgravity

Thermocapillary motion of a drop in a uniform temperature gradient is investigated numerically. The three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes and energy equations are solved by the finite-element method. The front tracking technique is employed to describe the drop interface. To simplify the calculation, the drop shape is assumed to be a sphere. It has been verified that the assumption is reasonable under the microgravity environment. Some calculations have been performed to deal with the thermocapillary motion for the drops of different sizes. It has been verified that the calculated results are in good agreement with available experimental and numerical results. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Numerical study of bifurcation solutions of spherical Taylor-Couette flow

The steady bifurcation flows in a spherical gap (gap ratio sigma=0.18) with rotating inner and stationary outer spheres are simulated numerically for Re(c1)less than or equal to Re less than or equal to 1 500 by solving steady axisymmetric incompressible Navier-Stokes equations using a finite difference method. The simulation shows that there exist two steady stable flows with 1 or 2 vortices per hemisphere for 775 less than or equal to Re less than or equal to 1 220 and three steady stable flows with 0, 1, or 2 vortices for 1 220Reynolds number is related with different initial conditions which on be generated by different accelerations of the inner sphere. Generation of zero-or two-vortex flow depends mainly on the acceleratio n, but that of one-vortex flow also depends on the perturbation breaking the equatorial symmetry. The mechanism of development of a saddle point in the meridional plane at higher Re number and its role in the formation of two-vortex flow are analyzed.

Numerical simulation of axisymmetric unsteady incompressible flow by a vorticity-velocity method

A new numerical method for solving the axisymmetric unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations using vorticity-velocity variables and a staggered grid is presented. The solution is advanced in time with an explicit two-stage Runge-Kutta method. At each stage a vector Poisson equation for velocity is solved. Some important aspects of staggering of the variable location, divergence-free correction to the velocity held by means of a suitably chosen scalar potential and numerical treatment of the vorticity boundary condition are examined. The axisymmetric spherical Couette flow between two concentric differentially rotating spheres is computed as an initial value problem. Comparison of the computational results using a staggered grid with those using a non-staggered grid shows that the staggered grid is superior to the non-staggered grid. The computed scenario of the transition from zero-vortex to two-vortex flow at moderate Reynolds number agrees with that simulated using a pseudospectral method, thus validating the temporal accuracy of our method.

Computation of turbulent-flow in a square duct - aspects of the secondary flow and its origin

A numerical study of turbulent flow in a straight duct of square cross-section is made. An order-of-magnitude analysis of the 3-D, time-averaged Navier-Stokes equations resulted in a parabolic form of the Navier-Stokes equations. The governing equations, expressed in terms of a new vector-potential formulation, are expanded as a multi-deck structure with each deck characterized by its dominant physical forces. The resulting equations are solved using a finite-element approach with a bicubic element representation on each cross-sectional plane. The numerical integration along the streamwise direction is carried out with finite-difference approximations until a fully-developed state is reached. The computed results agree well with other numerical studies and compare very favorably with the available experimental data. One important outcome of the current investigation is the interpretation analytically that the driving force of the secondary flow in a square duct comes mainly from the second-order terms of the difference in the gradients of the normal and transverse Reynolds stresses in the axial vorticity equation.

Upwind compact method and direct numerical-simulation of driven flow in a square cavity

A high-order accurate finite-difference scheme, the upwind compact method, is proposed. The 2-D unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are solved in primitive variables. The nonlinear convection terms in the governing equations are approximated by using upwind biased compact difference, and other spatial derivative terms are discretized by using the fourth-order compact difference. The upwind compact method is used to solve the driven flow in a square cavity. Solutions are obtained for Reynolds numbers as high as 10000. When Re less than or equal to 5000, the results agree well with those in literature. When Re = 7500 and Re = 10000, there is no convergence to a steady laminar solution, and the flow becomes unsteady and periodic.

圆柱振荡绕流的三维不稳定性研究

通过数值求解三维不可压缩Navier-Stokes方程，研究了振荡圆柱绕流的旋涡不稳定性。研究表明，在一定的参数范围内，由于旋涡不稳定性，振荡流出由二维演化成三维流动，并沿圆柱轴向形成交错排列的三维涡结构。数值计算合理地预测了三维涡结构的空间失稳波长，并与实验测试值相符很好。文中还进一步研究了圆柱的受力特性，通过求解Morison方程，计算了圆柱的阻力和惯性力特性，其计算结果与已有的实验数据相吻合。

Numerical Study of Heat Transfer Mechanism in Turbulent Supercritical CO2 Channel Flow

Direct numerical simulation (DNS) of supercritical CO2 turbulent channel flow has been performed to investigate the heat transfer mechanism of supercritical fluid. In the present DNS, full compressible Navier-Stokes equations and Peng-Robison state equation are solved. Due to effects of the mean density variation in the wall normal direction, mean velocity in the cooling region becomes high compared with that in the heating region. The mean width between high-and low-speed streaks near the wall decreases in the cooling region, which means that turbulence in the cooling region is enhanced and lots of fine scale eddies are created due to the local high Reynolds number effects. From the turbulent kinetic energy budget, it is found that compressibility effects related with pressure fluctuation and dilatation of velocity fluctuation can be ignored even for supercritical condition. However, the effect of density fluctuation on turbulent kinetic energy cannot be ignored. In the cooling region, low kinematic viscosity and high thermal conductivity in the low speed streaks modify fine scale structure and turbulent transport of temperature, which results in high Nusselt number in the cooling condition of the supercritical CO2.

微重力流体力学

目录

前言
第一章 微重力流体科学概论
一、微重力科学与微重力流体科学
1、微重力环境
2、重力的影响
3、微重力流体科学的发展
二、微重力流体力学概述
1、对流
2、扩散及输运现象
3、液滴和气泡动力学
4、多相流过程
5、残余重力效应
6、其他流体力学问题
三、微重力物理化学概述
1、临界现象
2、燃烧
3、分散体悬浮系统
4、晶体生长的物理化学问题
四、微重力流体科学的研究途径
1、微重力研究的一般途径
2、微重力实验手段
参考文献
第二章 基本方程组和流体运动特性
一、引言
二、连续性方程和迁移方程
三、动量方程
1、流体的粘性——Reynolds应力
2、动量守恒定律
3、Navier-Stokes方程
四、能量方程
1、总能量方程
2、动能方程
3、内能方程
4、粘性耗散函数
5、Fourier定律及另外二种形式的能量方程
6、不可压流体的导热方程
五、Newton流体的运动方程组及定解条件
1、基本方程组和适定性
2、定解条件
六、Boussinesq近似及适用范围
七、相似律和无量纲参数
1、利用Buckinghan〓定理导出相似参数
2、微重力流体力学的有关物理量和无量纲参数
参考文献
第三章 毛细现象以及界面的平衡和稳定
一、引言
二、表面张力的物理描述
三、液体射流的表面不稳定
1、基本方程组和基态
2、小扰动的线性化方程
3、本征值方程及其解
四、等温条件下液桥的平衡位型和稳定
1、表面张力作用下的平衡条件
2、毛细稳定性
3、旋转稳定性
第五章 液桥的流体动力学稳定理论
1、基本假设和液桥的平衡条件
2、稳定问题的数学提法
3、液桥的Liapunov稳定理论
4、特殊情形（Ω〓=μ=0）以及纯半波不稳定（n=1，m=1）
5、小扰动方程的变分方程
6、小Weber数和大Reynolds数情形的不稳定发展率
7、液桥微重力实验的结果的分析
8、讨论和结论
参考文献
第四章 对流和扩散
一、Pearson对流
1、自由面不变形时的小扰动分析
2、自由面可变形情形
3、非线性理论
4、多层不混溶液体系统
二、热毛细对流
1、矩形容器中的热毛细对流
2、柱形液桥的热毛细对流
3、半浮区液桥热毛细对流的数值模拟
4、薄层液体的热毛细对流
三、热毛细振荡对流的实验研究
1、液桥内部的温度振荡
2、热毛细对流的表面振荡
3、综合测量
四、热毛细对流的振荡机理
1、热流体波不稳定性
2、表面波不稳定性
3、有限高度液桥的线性不稳定性
4、三维不定常数值模拟
5、重力的影响
6、一种非稳定性理论
7、关于振荡的激发机制
参考文献
第五章 液滴动力学
一、等温液滴动力学
1、球形液滴的振荡
2、不混溶液体中球形液滴的振荡
3、弱非线性理论
4、实验模拟
二、非等温液滴的Marangoni迁移
1、定常线性化理论（小Reynolds数，小Marangoni数）
2、非线性理论
3、实验结果
三、液滴和气泡的相互作用
1、双气泡的轴对称理论
2、多液滴的轴对称理论
四、旋转液滴的演化序列和分叉理论
1、旋转液滴的演化
2、旋转液滴的Thomson-Tait稳定准则
3、长期稳定性和动力稳定性
4、长期稳定性真实性的实验证明
5、结论
参考文献
第六章 微重力材料流体力学
一、晶体生长过程
二、纯扩散过程
1、一维扩散过程
2、二维扩散过程
3、固-液界面弯曲对径向分凝的影响
三、浮区晶体生长
1、浮区的热毛细对流
2、浮区的熔质毛细对流
3、浮区对流的振荡特征（小Prandtl数对流）
4、耦合过程
四、溶液晶体生长
1、溶液晶体生长的相变界面过程
2、一维纯扩散过程
3、准定常溶液晶体生长过程
4、不定常溶液生长过程
五、气相晶体生长
1、气相晶体生长过程
2、一维模型
3、物理气相输运中的对流效应
4、化学气相沉积（CVD）过程
参考文献

A CE/SE Scheme for Flows in Porous Media and Its Applications

In this paper, a new computational scheme for solving flows in porous media was proposed. The scheme was based on an improved CE/SE method (the space-time Conservation Element and Solution Element method). We described porous flows by adopting DFB (Brinkman-Forchheimer extended Darcy) equation. The comparison between our computational results and Ghia's confirmed the high accuracy, resolution, and efficiency of our CE/SE scheme. The proposed first-order CE/SE scheme is a new reliable way for numerical simulations of flows in porous media. After investigation of effects of Darcy number on porous flow, it shows that Darcy number has dominant influence on porous flow for the Reynolds number and porosity considered.

Simulation of gas flow over a micro cylinder

Gas flow over a micro cylinder is simulated using both a compressible Navier-Stokes solver and a hybrid continuum /particle approach. The micro cylinder flow has low Reynolds number because of the small length scale and the low speed, which also indicates that the rarefied gas effect exists in the flow. A cylinder having a diameter of 20 microns is simulated under several flow conditions where the Reynolds number ranges from 2 to 50 and the Mach number varies from 0.1 to 0.8. It is found that the low Reynolds number flow can be compressible even when the Mach number is less than 0.3, and the drag coefficient of the cylinder increases when the Reynolds number decreases. The compressible effect will increase the pressure drag coefficient although the friction coefficient remains nearly unchanged. The rarefied gas effect will reduce both the friction and pressure drag coefficients, and the vortex in the flow may be shrunk or even disappear.

三维波流数值水槽的构建方法

为了模拟波浪与水流的联合作用,基于Reynolds平均的Navier-Stokes方法,构建了一个三维波流数值水槽. 使用该模型对不同出流边界条件进行了对比分析. 结果表明:引入合理的入流和出流边界条件,可以保证在计算稳定后,水槽平均水面基本保持不变. 垂向时均流速分布的计算结果与实验数据吻合良好. 这表明:该波流数值水槽具有较好的波流特性,可用于计算波浪与水流、以及与三维固定结构之间相互作用.

Electro-Osmotic Flow and Mixing in Heterogeneous Microchannels

Analytical and numerical studies of secondary electro-osmotic flow EOF and its mixing in microchannels with heterogeneous zeta potentials are carried out in the present work. The secondary EOFs are analyzed by solving the Stokes equation with heterogeneous slip velocity boundary conditions. The analytical results obtained are compared with the direct numerical simulation of the Navier-Stokes equations. The secondary EOFs could transport scalar in larger areas and increase the scalar gradients, which significantly improve the mixing rate of scalars. It is shown that the heterogeneous zeta potentials could generate complex flow patterns and be used to enhance scalar mixing.

Direct Numerical Simulation of a Spatially Evolving Supersonic Turbulent Boundary Layer at Ma=6

Direct numerical simulation is carried out for a spatially evolving supersonic turbulent boundary layer at free-stream Mach number 6. To overcome numerical instability, the seventh-order WENO scheme is used for the convection terms of Navier-Stokes equations, and fine mesh is adopted to minimize numerical dissipation. Compressibilty effects on the near-wall turbulent kinetic energy budget are studied. The cross-stream extended self-similarity and scaling exponents including the near-wall region are studied. In high Mach number flows, the coherence vortex structures are arranged to be smoother and streamwised, and the hair-pin vortices are less likely to occur.