The evolution mechanism and characteristics of the submerged laminar round jet in a viscous homogenous
shallow water layer are investigated through computational modeling. The laminar mode is used to solve
the Navier-Stokes equations. In order to visualize the formation and evolution of the flow pattern, the volume of
fluid (VOF) method is adopted to simulate the free surface of the water layer below the air and to trace the jet
fluid. The results show that the jet forms a class of quasi-two-dimensional (Q2D) vortex structures in the ambient
fluid with unequal influence from the bottom wall and free surface. The time dependence of three parameters,
defined for the flow pattern as jet length, spiral radius and pattern length, is investigated quantitatively in their
non-dimensional forms. Three different Reynolds numbers and two injection durations are further considered to
discuss their influence on the flow pattern.
CHEN Ke* (陈科), ZHAO Kai (赵恺), YOU Yunxiang (尤云祥)
. Numerical Study on Flow Structure of a Shallow Laminar Round Jet[J]. Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University(Science), 2017
, 22(3)
: 257
-264
.
DOI: 10.1007/s12204-017-1830-8
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