Unsteady cavitating flow is extremely complicated and brings more serious damages and unignorable problems compared with steady cavitating flow.CFD has become a practical way to model cavitation;however,the popularly ...Unsteady cavitating flow is extremely complicated and brings more serious damages and unignorable problems compared with steady cavitating flow.CFD has become a practical way to model cavitation;however,the popularly used full cavitation model cannot reflect the pressure-change that the bubble experiences during its life path in the highly unsteady flow like cloud cavitating.Thus a dynamic cavitation model(DCM)is proposed and it has been considered to have not only the first-order pressure effects but also zero-order effect and can provide greater insight into the physical process of bubble producing,developing and collapsing compared to the traditional cavitation model.DCM has already been validated for steady cavitating flow,and the results were reported.Furthermore,DCM is designed and supposed to be more accurate and efficient in modeling unsteady cavitating flow,which is also the purpose of this paper.The basic characteristic of the unsteady cavitating flow,such as the vapor volume fraction distribution and the evolution of pressure amplitude and frequency at different locations of the hydrofoil,are carefully studied to validate DCM.It is found that not only these characteristics mentioned above accord well with the experimental results,but also some detailed transient flow information is depicted,including the re-entrant jet flow that caused the shedding of the cavity,and the phenomenon of two-peak pressure fluctuation in the vicinity of the cavity closure in a cycle.The numerical results validate the capability of DCM for the application of modeling the complicated unsteady cavitating flow.展开更多
In the present study, firstly, the unsteady cavitating flows around a hydrofoil are studied based on the flow visualization and detail velocity measurement, a high-speed video camera is used to visualize the flow stru...In the present study, firstly, the unsteady cavitating flows around a hydrofoil are studied based on the flow visualization and detail velocity measurement, a high-speed video camera is used to visualize the flow structures, and a particle image velocimetry （PIV） technique is applied to the measurement of the time-averaged and instantaneous velocity and vorticity fields. The results show that the unsteadiness of mass transfer process between the vapor and the two-phase regions is substantial, a self-oscillatory behavior of the whole sheet cavitation is obtained, with large length fluctuations and vapor cloud shedding, and also the cavitation structure depends on the interaction of the water-vapor mixture and the periodic vortex shedding. The main purpose of this experimental study is to offer information for validating computational models, and shed light on the unsteady multiphase transport process of cavitating flows. Furthermore, with an emphasis on the dynamics of the attached turbulent cavitating flows, a filter-based model （FBM） is derived from the k-6 two-equation model, a conditional averaging method aimed at improving unsteady simulation is applied to computation. In comparison to the standard k-ε model, overall, the filter-based model is shown to improve the predictive capability considerably.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51276157)Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.LY12E060026)
文摘Unsteady cavitating flow is extremely complicated and brings more serious damages and unignorable problems compared with steady cavitating flow.CFD has become a practical way to model cavitation;however,the popularly used full cavitation model cannot reflect the pressure-change that the bubble experiences during its life path in the highly unsteady flow like cloud cavitating.Thus a dynamic cavitation model(DCM)is proposed and it has been considered to have not only the first-order pressure effects but also zero-order effect and can provide greater insight into the physical process of bubble producing,developing and collapsing compared to the traditional cavitation model.DCM has already been validated for steady cavitating flow,and the results were reported.Furthermore,DCM is designed and supposed to be more accurate and efficient in modeling unsteady cavitating flow,which is also the purpose of this paper.The basic characteristic of the unsteady cavitating flow,such as the vapor volume fraction distribution and the evolution of pressure amplitude and frequency at different locations of the hydrofoil,are carefully studied to validate DCM.It is found that not only these characteristics mentioned above accord well with the experimental results,but also some detailed transient flow information is depicted,including the re-entrant jet flow that caused the shedding of the cavity,and the phenomenon of two-peak pressure fluctuation in the vicinity of the cavity closure in a cycle.The numerical results validate the capability of DCM for the application of modeling the complicated unsteady cavitating flow.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 50679001 and 50979004)
文摘In the present study, firstly, the unsteady cavitating flows around a hydrofoil are studied based on the flow visualization and detail velocity measurement, a high-speed video camera is used to visualize the flow structures, and a particle image velocimetry （PIV） technique is applied to the measurement of the time-averaged and instantaneous velocity and vorticity fields. The results show that the unsteadiness of mass transfer process between the vapor and the two-phase regions is substantial, a self-oscillatory behavior of the whole sheet cavitation is obtained, with large length fluctuations and vapor cloud shedding, and also the cavitation structure depends on the interaction of the water-vapor mixture and the periodic vortex shedding. The main purpose of this experimental study is to offer information for validating computational models, and shed light on the unsteady multiphase transport process of cavitating flows. Furthermore, with an emphasis on the dynamics of the attached turbulent cavitating flows, a filter-based model （FBM） is derived from the k-6 two-equation model, a conditional averaging method aimed at improving unsteady simulation is applied to computation. In comparison to the standard k-ε model, overall, the filter-based model is shown to improve the predictive capability considerably.
