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Formation and Development of Large-Scale Vortex Structures in Turbulent Flows

Research Project

Project/Area Number 63540291
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field 物理学一般
Research InstitutionHiroshima Institute of Technology

Principal Investigator

FUTAGAMI Tanehiro  Hiroshima Institute of Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Professor, 工学部, 教授 (20104078)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) TATSUMI Tomomasa  Kyoto Institute of Technology, President, 事務局, 学長 (90025213)
Project Period (FY) 1988 – 1989
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1989)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
Fiscal Year 1989: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 1988: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
KeywordsTurbulent Flow / Vortex Structure / Duct Flow (Pipe Flow) / Laminar Flow / Instability / Critical Reynolds Number / Critical Aspect Ratio / Remote Sensing / 臨界レイノルズ数 / リモートセンシング / 画像解析
Research Abstract

Three-dimensional vortex structure in a rectangular duct flow has been investigated as a typyeal case of the "Large-scale vortex structures of turbulent shear flows" (Tatsumi).
First, the stability of the steady laminar flow in a rectangular duct against external disturbance into the Legendre polynomials. It is found that the laminar flow is unstable against two of the four possible modes of the disturbance and stable against the remaining two modes. Against the most unstable mode, the flow is unstable for the aspect ratio A larger than a critical value Ac = 3.2 and stable for A below Ac. For the super-critical- values of A, the critical Reynolds number Re of the flow decreases monotonically with increasing A: Rc = 36600 for A = 3.5, 18400 for 4, 10400 for 5, 8200 for 6, 6800 for 8, and Rc tends to the known value 5772 for the plane Poiseuille flow in the limit of infinite A.
The flow is less unstable against another unstable mode: Rc = 31500 for A = 6, 11000 for 8, and the flow is stable for A below 5. These are the first results concerning the stability characteristics of the laminar flows whose velocity distributions have two- dimensional variation.
The nonlinear stability of the flow against disturbances of finite magnitude is now being carried on. Preliminary results give qualitatively similar flow patterns to those of the experimentally observed 'secondary flow' of the vortex structure of the turbulent flow.
Remote sensing of various vortex motions in nature is studied in order to investigate the vortex structures.

Report

(3 results)
  • 1989 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1988 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (14 results)

All Other

All Publications (14 results)

  • [Publications] T.Tatsumi: "Dynamics of large-scale eddies in turbulent flows" Fluid Dynamic Research. 3. 273-281 (1988)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1989 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] T.Tatsumi: "Instability of the rectangular duct flow and generation of the secondary flow" M.Lesieur & O.Metais eds.,Turbulence and Coherent Structures,Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1-15 (1989)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1989 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] T.Tatsumi: "Stability of the laminar flow in a rectangular duct" Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 212. 437-449 (1990)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1989 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] T.Futagami: "Observation of vortex motions in art and nature" Research Bulletin of the Hiroshima Institute of Technology. 25. (1991)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1989 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] T. Tatsumi: "Dynamics of Large-scale eddies in turbulent flows" Fluid Dynamic Research, Vol. 3, 273-281, 1988.

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1989 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] T. Tatsumi: "Instability of the rectangular duct flow and and generation of the secondary flow" M. Lesieur & O. Metais eds., Turbulent and Coherent Structures, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1-15, 1989.

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1989 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] T. Tatsumi: "Stability of the laminar flow in a rectangular duct" Journal of Fluid Mechanics Vol. 212, 437-449.

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1989 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] T. Futagami: "Observation of vortex motions in art and nature" Research Bulletin of the Hiroshima Institute of Technology, Vol. 25, 1991.

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1989 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] T.Tatsumi and T.Yoshimura: "Instability of the rectangular duct flow and generation of the secondary flow" M.Lesieur & O.Metais eds.,Turbulence and Coherent Structures,Kluwer Acacdemic Publishers. 1-15 (1989)

    • Related Report
      1989 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] T.Tatsumi and T.Yoshimura: "Stability of the laminar flow in a rectangular duct" Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 212. 437-449 (1990)

    • Related Report
      1989 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] T.Futagami: "Efficient simplex algorithm for the finite difference and dynamic linear programming method in optimal potential control" A Collection of Technical Papers,ISCFD NAGOYA. 1204-1209 (1989)

    • Related Report
      1989 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] T.Tatsumi: Fluid Dynamic Research. 3. 273-281 (1988)

    • Related Report
      1988 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 吉村卓弘,巽友正: 日本流休力学学会誌「ながれ」. 8. (1989)

    • Related Report
      1988 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] T.Futagami: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Method in Flow Analysis. 1. 193-200 (1988)

    • Related Report
      1988 Annual Research Report

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