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Subharmonic resonance, pairing and shredding in the mixing layer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2006

Peter A. Monkewitz
Peter A. Monkewitz
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Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
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Abstract

An instability-wave analysis is presented to describe the spatial evolution of a fundamental mode and its subharmonic on an inviscid parallel mixing layer. It incorporates explicitly the weakly nonlinear interaction between the two modes. The computational finding that the development of the subharmonic, leading eventually to pairing or shredding, crucially depends on its phase relation with the fundamental is fully confirmed. Furthermore it is shown that a critical fundamental amplitude has to be reached before the (spatial) subharmonic becomes phase locked with the fundamental and exhibits a modified growth rate. Then the analysis is exploited to explain the occurrence of amplitude modulations in ‘natural’ mixing layers and to estimate the width of the subharmonic spectral peaks. Also, the case of oblique subharmonic waves is briefly touched upon. In the last part, ways are explored to model non-parallel effects, i.e. to handle the saturation of the rapidly growing subharmonic. Using this wave description, the role of mode interaction in the ‘vortex pairing’ and ‘shredding’ process is assessed.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 188 , March 1988 , pp. 223 - 252
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© 1988 Cambridge University Press

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