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PHYSICS OF FLUIDS
Volume 25, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4841576
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- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) [R01DK090769]
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Numerical simulations of the unsteady, two-dimensional, incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are performed for a Newtonian fluid in a channel having a symmetric constriction modeled by a two-parameter Gaussian distribution on both channel walls. The Reynolds number based on inlet half-channel height and mean inlet velocity ranges from 1 to 3000. Constriction ratios based on the half-channel height of 0.25, 0.5, and 0.75 are considered. The results show that both the Reynolds number and constriction geometry have a significant effect on the behavior of the post-constriction flow field. The Navier-Stokes solutions are observed to experience a number of bifurcations: steady attached flow, steady separated flow (symmetric and asymmetric), and unsteady vortex shedding downstream of the constriction depending on the Reynolds number and constriction ratio. A sequence of events is described showing how a sustained spatially growing flow instability, reminiscent of a convective instability, leads to the vortex shedding phenomenon via a proposed streamwise pressure-gradient mechanism. (C) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.
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