Cavity Dynamics behind a 2-D Wedge Analyzed by Incompressible and Compressible Flow Solvers

Park, Sunho; Lee, Heebum; Choi, Hak-Kyu; Rhee, Shin Hyung; Choe, Young Min; Kim, Hyeongjun; Kim, Chongam; Kim, Jihye; Ahn, Byoung-Kwon; Kim, Hyoung-Tae

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“…Many experimental and numerical research works can be found treating wake vortices behind bluff bodies in single-phase flows, like behind a circular cylinder [5][6][7] and a 2D wedge [8,9], which permit explaining the alternate vortex shedding mechanism. Although some researchers have also paid attention to the cavitating flow behind a circular cylinder [10][11][12][13] and a 2D wedge [3,4,[14][15][16][17][18], there is a lack of investigations 1 of 17 devoted to understanding the cavitation effects on the dynamics of wake vortices, especially behind 2D symmetric hydrofoils.…”

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Numerical Investigation of the Cavitation Effects on the Vortex Shedding from a Hydrofoil with Blunt Trailing Edge

Chen

Geng

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2020

Fluids

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Vortex cavitation can appear in the wake flow of hydrofoils, inducing unwanted consequences such as vibrations or unstable behaviors in hydraulic machinery and systems. To investigate the cavitation effects on hydrofoil vortex shedding, a numerical investigation of the flow around a 2D NACA0009 with a blunt trailing edge at free caviation conditions and at two degrees of cavitation developments has been carried out by means of the Zwart cavitation model and the LES WALE turbulence model which permits predicting the laminar to turbulent transition of the boundary layers. To analyze the dynamic behavior of the vortex shedding process and the coherent structures, two identification methods based on the Eulerian and Lagrangian reference frames have been applied to the simulated unsteady flow field. It is found that the cavitation occurrence in the wake significantly changes the main vortex shedding characteristics including the morphology of the vortices, the vortex formation length, the effective height of the near wake flow and the shedding frequency. The numerical results predict that the circular shape of the vortices changes to an elliptical one and that the vortex shedding frequency is significantly increased under cavitation conditions. The main reason for the frequency increase seems to be the reduction in the transverse separation between the upper and lower rows of vortices induced by the increase in the vortex formation length.

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