Numerical Study of Correlation of Fluid Particle Acceleration and Turbulence Intensity in Swirling Flow

Nan Gui, Xingtuan Yang, Jie Yan, Jiyuan Tu and Shengyao Jiang

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2015, vol. 2015, 1-8

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Numerical investigation of correlation between the fluid particle acceleration and the intensity of turbulence in swirling flows at a large Reynolds number is carried out via direct numerical simulation. A weak power-law form correlation between the Lagrangian acceleration and the Eulerian turbulence intensity is derived. It is found that the increase of the swirl level leads to the increase of the exponent φ and the trajectory-conditioned correlation coefficient and results in a weak power-law augmentation of the acceleration intermittency. The trajectory-conditioned convection of turbulence fluctuation in the Eulerian viewpoint is generally linearly proportional to the fluctuation of Lagrangian accelerations, indicating a weak but clear relation between the Lagrangian intermittency and Eulerian intermittency effects. Moreover, except the case with vortex breakdown, the weak linear dependency is maintained when the swirl levels change, only with the coefficient of slope varied.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1155/2015/179072

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