A Study on Flow Structure around a Bridge Beam and Behavior of Sea Water Mist

Okinawa in the subtropical islands enclosed in the ocean has a problem that corrosion of structures progresses quickly because of high temperature, high humidity and adhesion of sea-water mists flying from sea. Author is interested in corrosion of bridge made of weatherability steel. Therefore, it needs to investigate the flow structure around bridge beams and behavior of sea-water mist (droplet). In this paper, flow visualization and PIV are attempted to understand the flow structures around bridge beams and, furthermore, numerical approach of motion of droplets is attempted to understand the collision of sea-water mists on the bridge wall.

Experimental Study of the Response of Transonic Diffuser Flow to a Piezoceramic Actuator at Diffuser Throat

An experimental study of the response of a piezoceramic actuator set at the throat to a transonic diffuser is carried out by measuring wall static pressure fluctuations and by visualizing the flow field using schlieren technique. The visualized flow fields are captured with a digital still camera and a digital high speed video camera. The piezo ceramic actuator is attached at the throat of the diffuser and driven by sinusoidal amplified voltage signals. The diffuser used in this experiment is circular arc half nozzle with the height h* and width w of 3 mm and 25 mm, respectively. The blockage factor of the piezoceramic actuator to the diffuser throat is 9.2% assuring the effect of change in the throat area rather than the boundary layer disturbances. The piezoceramic actuator is driven at the frequency of 100 Hz, 200 Hz, and 300 Hz and its amplitude is about 1 mm. It is found that the wall static pressure fluctuations and the behavior of the shock wave clearly correspond to the vibration of the piezo ceramic actuator for all the frequency ranges whereas the averaged shock position remains almost unchanged. All the results mentioned above suggest that driving the piezo ceramic actuator at the diffuser throat can be one of the promising techniques to control unsteady transonic diffuser flow.

A Review of the Recent PIV Studies —From the Basics to the Hybridization with CFD

The purpose of this article is to review recent PIV Studies from the basic to hybrid analysis, focusing on explaining epoch-making development of PIV. The overwhelming advantage of PIV over other velocity measurement methods is that it enables instantaneous and simultaneous velocity measurement of whole flow fields. We roughly classify PIV development and/or progress into the following five categories; A) Basics of PIV and post-processing. B) Simultaneous measurement of velocity and temperature, and 3D-PIV. C) Application to multiphase turbulent flows. D) Application to fluid machinery. E) Hybridization of PIV and CFD. This paper introduces the epoch-making research results from papers published in international journals as milestones related to (A) to (E), and concludes with additional forecast of future development of PIV research.

Study of Interaction between Supersonic Flow and Rods or Jets Surrounded by Porous Cavity

In this experiment, the effects of the combination of jets or rods and a porous cavity on the supersonic flow field are studied by means of visualization of schlieren method and the measurements of wall static pressures and the flow direction in the cavity with the thermal tuft probe. Three cases of jets or rods arrangements are tested in the experiments. As a result, a bow shock wave which is generated by the jets or rods is observed by mean of schlieren method. And it is confirmed that the expansion region appears downstream of the rods but is not in case of the jets pattern. Moreover the pressure ratios of starting shock wave passing through porous cavity for jets pattern differ from that of rods pattern. In the cavity, the flow direction at the measurement position in the cavity is always opposite to the main flow, as long as the starting shock wave is located upstream of the porous cavity for all cases. Difference in the backward flow ratio between the jets and rods patterns is observe after the starting shock wave passes through the porous cavity.

Synchronal Measurement of Flow Structure and Heat Transfer of Impingement Jet

This paper will present the characteristics of flow behavior and thermal field of both free and impingement jet issued from a circular orifice nozzle at Re=8900.The flow behavior of a single round jet and impingement jet was observed by smoke flow visualization recorded by a high speed camera using 5000 frame per second.Heat transfer coefficient on the impingement surface was measured by means of infrared camera (TVS-8500,Avio) with a two-dimensional array of Indeum-Antimony (In Sb) sensors varying in the separation distance between the nozzle and the target plate.The heat transfer coefficient changes in time and spatial.Therefore,the root mean square distribution of the heat transfer was obtained from the data.As a result,it was confirmed that the longitudinal vortex was observed outside of the ring vortex,and then the longitudinal vortex was penetrated in the jet flow.Moreover,the high value of root mean square of the heat transfer coefficient has spread radially in stripy manner,which is caused as the results of the longitudinal vortexes flowing in the radial direction on the impingement plate.

Experimental study of unsteady supersonic flow interacting with porous cavity and jets or rods

In this study,an experiment was performed to clarify the flow field,in which the jets were normally injected into a main supersonic flow surrounded by a porous cavity,and this report figures out interaction between starting shock wave and porous cavity.In the experiment,a porous cavity is attached to a main duct and jets and rods are inserted to the main duct on the porous cavity.To reveal this flow field,the thermal tuft probe was adopted to experimentally investigate the flow in the cavity.In the experiments,the effect of the porous cavity with jets or rods on the flow field is studied by means of visualization of schlieren method with a high speed camera and measurement of cavity flow with thermal tuft probe.As a results,frequency analysis of output of the thermal tuft probe revealed that some clear dominant frequencies were confirmed when the starting shock wave existed around the porous cavity in all cases of jets and rods arrangements.Moreover,visualization of schlieren method with a high speed camera clarified that a starting shock wave had the same dominant frequencies as that of the flow fluctuation in the cavity only around the cavity.