Rotation effects on a fully-developed turbulent pipe flow

✍ Scribed by M. Anwer; R. M. C. So

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 776 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0723-4864
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00203062

✦ Synopsis

A fully-developed turbulent pipe flow is allowed to pass through a rotating pipe section, whose axis of rotation coincides w: with the pipe axis. At the exit end of the rotating section, the flow passes into a stationary pipe. As a result of the relaxation of surface X 6 rotation, the turbulent flow near the pipe wall is affected by extra turbulence production created by the large circumferential shear v strain set up by the rapid decrease of the rotational velocity to zero 0 at the wall. However, the flow in the most part of the pipe is absent tr of this extra turbulence production because the circumferential strain is zero as a result of the solid-body rotation imparted to the f2 flow by the rotating pipe section. The combined effect of these two phenomena on the flow is investigated in detail using hot-wire Subscript anemometry techniques. Both mean and turbulence fields are mea-0 sured, together with the wall shear and the turbulent burst behavior at the wall. A number of experiments at different rotational speeds are carried out. Therefore, the effects of rotation on the behavior of wall shear, turbulent burst at the wall, turbulence production and the near-wall flow can be documented and analysed in detail.