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On the wave excitation and the formation of recirculation eddies in an axisymmetric flow of uniformly rotating fluids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

Hideshi Hanazaki
Hideshi Hanazaki
Affiliation:
National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
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Abstract

The inertial waves excited in a uniformly rotating fluid passing through a long circular tube are studied numerically. The waves are excited either by a local deformation of the tube wall or by an obstacle located on the tube axis. When the flow is subcritical, i.e. when the phase and group velocity of the fastest wave mode in their long-wave limit are larger than the incoming axial flow velocity, the excited waves propagate upstream of the excited position. The non-resonant waves have many linear aspects, including the upstream-advancing speed of the wave and the coexisting lee wavelength. When the flow is critical (resonant), i.e. when the long-wave velocity is nearly equal to the axial flow velocity, the large-amplitude waves are resonantly excited. The time development of these waves is described well by the equation derived by Grimshaw & Yi (1993). The integro-differential equation, which describes the strongly nonlinear waves until the axial flow reversal occurs, can predict the onset time and position of the recirculation eddies observed in the solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations. The numerical results and the theory both show that the flow reversal most probably occurs on the tube axis and also when the waves are excited by a contraction of the tube wall. The structure of the recirculation eddies obtained in the solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations at Re = 105 is similar to the axisymmetric or ‘bubble-type’ breakdown observed in the experiments of the vortex-breakdown which used a different non-uniform (Burgers-type) rotation. In uniformly rotating fluids the formation of the recirculation eddies has not been observed in the previous numerical studies of vortex breakdown where a straight tube was used and thus the inertial waves were not excited. This shows that the generation of the recirculation eddies in this study is genuinely explained by the topographically excited large-amplitude inertial ‘waves’ and not by other ‘instability’ mechanisms. Since the wave cannot be excited in a straight tube even in the non-uniformly rotating flows, the generation mechanism of the recirculation eddies in this study is different from the previous numerical studies for the vortex breakdown. The occurrence of the recirculation eddies depends not only on the Froude number and the strength of the excitation source but also on the Reynolds number since the wave amplitude generally decreases by the viscous effects. Some relations to the experiments of vortex breakdown, which have been exclusively done for non-uniformly rotating fluids but done in a ‘non-uniform tube’, are discussed. The flow states, which are classified as supercritical, subcritical or critical in hydraulic terminology, changes along the flow when the upstream flow is near resonant conditions and a non-uniform tube is used.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 322 , 10 September 1996 , pp. 165 - 200
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© 1996 Cambridge University Press

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