Particle Imaging Velocimetry （PIV） is utilized to investigate the flow structures of an oscillating cylinder attached to a flexible tail. At the same oscillation frequency and amplitude, the mean streamwise velocity along the wake central-line and the mean vertical velocity around the trailing edge of the flexible tail can be greatly increased with the tail length. Meanwhile, the longer the flexible tail is, the larger its deformation is. In order to study the influence of flexible tail length on the wake pattern of the experimental model, the relationships between the swirling strength Aci of vortex structure near the tail end and the velocity of tail trailing edge have been revealed. Moreover, the convection tracks and the Aci of vortex cores for different flexible tails are discussed.
Volumetric particle image velocimetry(VPIV) refers to a PIV-based technique which can obtain full velocity components in a three-dimensional measurement volume.A new VPIV method with a single lens was developed.A three-vision prism was used to make viewing from different angles using one camera.The technique was tested and successfully applied to a three-dimensional three-component(3D3C) measurement of a zero-net-mass-flux jet flow.The accuracy of the measurement was investigated,specifically in steps of calibration,self-calibration and particle triangulation.Time sequence of a vortex ring development was presented.It was shown that the measurement has high accuracy with validation rate of velocity vector reaching about 95%.The flow with vortex ring passing the measurement volume was studied using both swirl strength and vorticity magnitude criteria.Through comparison,the swirl criterion was found to be superior to the criterion of vorticity in differentiating the rotation motion and the free shear.
The present work uses dynamic mode decomposition(DMD) to analyze wake flow of NACA0015 airfoil with Gurney flap.The physics of DMD is first introduced.Then the PIV-measured wake flow velocity field is decomposed into dynamical modes.The vortex shedding pattern behind the trailing edge and its high-order harmonics have been captured with abundant information such as frequency,wavelength and convection speed.It is observed that high-order dynamic modes convect faster than low-order modes;moreover the wavelength of the dynamic modes scales with the corresponding frequency in power law.
Chong Pan,~(a)) Dongsheng Yu,and Jinjun Wang Key Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics of Ministry of Education,Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing 100191,China
