Visualization of A Jet in Turbulent Crossflow
Visualization of A Jet in Turbulent Crossflow
Visualization of A Jet in Turbulent Crossflow
1 Introduction
Incompressible jets transversely issuing into a spatially-developing turbulent
boundary layer is one of the most challenging types of three dimensional flows
due to its thermal-fluid complexity and technological applications; for instance,
film cooling of turbine blades, chimney plumes, fuel injection, etc. The capability
to control a flow field in such a way to enhance thermal efficiency is of crucial
relevance in aerospace and other engineering applications. A classical example
of active flow control by three-dimensional local blowing perturbations is the jet
in crossflow. A complicated set of flow structures and vortex systems is gener-
ated by the interaction of the jet with the crossflow: the shear-layer vortices, the
counter-rotating vortex pair (CVP), the wake vortices and the horseshoe vortex.
These coherent structures have been the motivation of several studies by many
researchers. A recent comprehensive review was performed by Karagozian [1].
Coherent structures in such a complex environment and their interactions (tur-
bulent events) are better identified and visualized by DNS. At the beginning,
flow visualization by smoke and dye injection was the only technique available to
describe these coherent structures, which can be considered the building-blocks
of turbulent flows, [2]. Generally speaking and based on the premise “seeing
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2 G. Araya, G. Marin, F. Cucchietti, I. Meta, and R. Grima