Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND FLUID FLOW
Volume 51, Issue -, Pages 383-394Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2014.10.002
Keywords
Turbulence; Rectangular jet; Sharp edges; Saddle back profiles; Vorticity
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- Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada
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Experimental results on the near field development of a free rectangular jet with aspect ratio 10 are presented. The jet issues from a sharp-edged orifice attached to a rectangular settling chamber at Re-h similar to 23,000, based on slot width, h. Measurements on cross plane grids were obtained with a two-component hot wire anemometry probe, which provided information on the three dimensional characteristics of the flow field. Two key features of this type of jet are mean axial velocity profiles presenting two off axis peaks, commonly mentioned as saddleback profiles, and a predominant dumbbell shape as described by, for example, a contour of the axial mean velocity. The saddleback shape is found to be significantly influenced by the vorticity distribution in the transverse plane of the jet, while the dumbbell is traced to two terms in the axial mean vorticity transport equation that diffuse fluid from the centre of the jet towards its periphery. At the farthest location where measurements were taken, 30 slot widths from the jet exit, the flow field resembles that of an axisymmetric jet. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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