Experimental observation of the precessing-vortex-core reconnection phenomenon in a combined-flow turbine

Текст статьи не публикуется в открытом доступе в соответствии с политикой журнала.Some results of experimental studies of the vortex-core reconnection phenomenon in the flowthrough duct of a combined-flow turbine were presented. The studies were performed on a medium-scale hydrodynamic test bench, the design of which was maximally similar to real hydroturbines. Using high-speed recording in a regime with a 75% load in a suction-pipe diffuser, the reconnection of a precessing vortex-core with detachment of vortex rings was observed. Aperiodic pressure surges due to the reconnection of a vortex and the formation of vortex rings were experimentally detected

A rivulet of a power-law fluid with constant contact angle draining down a slowly varying substrate

Locally unidirectional steady gravity-driven flow of a thin rivulet of a power-law fluid with prescribed volume flux down a locally planar substrate is considered. First the solution for unidirectional flow of a uniform rivulet down a planar substrate is obtained, and then it is used to obtain the solution for a slowly varying rivulet with prescribed constant (nonzero) contact angle down a slowly varying substrate, specifically flow in the azimuthal direction around the outside of a large horizontal circular cylinder. The solution is shown to depend strongly on the value of the power-law index of the fluid. For example, a rivulet of strongly shear-thinning fluid "self-channels" its flow down a narrow central channel between two "levees" of slowly moving fluid that form at its sides, and in the central channel there is a "plug-like" flow except in a boundary layer near the substrate. On the other hand, in a rivulet of a strongly shear-thickening fluid the velocity profile is linear except in a boundary layer near the free surface. Another notable qualitative departure from Newtonian behaviour is that, whereas the mass of a rivulet of a Newtonian or a shear-thinning fluid is theoretically infinite, the mass of a rivulet of a shear-thickening fluid is finite

On the viscosity influence on a helical vortex flament evolution

Helical vortices whose parameters have a strong influence on the efficiency of the apparatus is often occur in technical devices using swirling flow (cyclones, separators, etc.). To date the internal structure of such vortices is poorly understood. In [1] a model of helical vortex with uniform vorticity distribution in the core is proposed. Vortices arising in real flow always have a smooth vorticity distribution due to the viscosity action. The problem on steady moving helical vortices with the vortex core of small size in an inviscid fluid was solved in [2]. The non-orthogonal ‘helical’ coordinate system was introduced that allowed author to reduce the problem to two dimensional one. However, the velocity of the vortex motion was written only in the form of a quadratures computation of which is difficult. This paper presents first attempt for research on the diffusion and dynamics of a viscous helical vortex