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Coupling of U-Tube and shear layer oscillations in an interconnected flow compartment

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posted on 2006-07-01, 00:00 authored by Lloyd ChuaLloyd Chua, E B Shuy
Results of experiments conducted in a 2m high flume at large Reynolds numbers are reported in this paper. The flume was partitioned into two compartments. Flow entered the bottom of the upstream test compartment as a wall jet, at jet Reynolds number ranging from 11,000 to 170,000. Periodic oscillations of the free surface in the two compartments resembling the oscillatory flow in a liquid-filled U-tube, and large coherent structures formed above the potential core of the wall jet were observed. Coupling of the U-tube oscillations and vortex shedding is attributed to fluid-dynamic and fluid-resonant feedback processes. For test compartment length, Lc=0.8m , fluid-resonant feedback was found to be dominant, and the shear layer was observed to oscillate at the natural frequency of the two-compartment, U-tube system. The observed U-tube oscillations are initiated by the oscillations of the shear layer at a frequency equal to the subharmonic component for the U-tube. The flow oscillations were generally weaker for Lc=1.2 and 2.0m with oscillation frequencies governed by fluid-dynamic feedback, verified from a comparison with the results from a previously reported study.

History

Journal

Journal of engineering mechanics

Volume

132

Issue

7

Pagination

764 - 770

Publisher

American Society of Civil Engineers

Location

Reston, Va.

ISSN

0733-9399

eISSN

1943-7889

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2006, American Society of Civil Engineers