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Stratified propelled wakes

delete2006-03-29
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Patrice Meunier
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G. R. Spedding
DOI:10.1017/S0022112006008676delete
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This paper presents experimental results on the wake of a propelled bluff body towed at a constant horizontal speed in a linearly stratified fluid. Three regimes of the wake have been found, depending on the angle of attack and on the ratio of drag force to propeller thrust. Most of the experiments were obtained in a first regime where a strong momentum flux is created in the wake, which can be oriented backward or forward depending on the ratio of drag force to thrust of the propeller. The velocity amplitude, wake width and Strouhal number of the wake can be predicted by defining a momentum thickness based on the drag coefficient of the bluff body and the thrust of the propeller. A second regime is obtained for a narrow band of towing velocities, with a relative width of 4%, in which the momentum flux is found to vanish. The wake is characterized by the velocity fluctuations; the scaling exponents of the velocity, vorticity and width of the wake are measured. A third regime Is obtained for wakes with a small angle of attack, with a null momentum flux. The mean profile of the wake is found to be asymmetric and its amplitude and wake width are measured. Finally, the relevance of these results to the case of a real self-propelled bluff body is discussed. The presence of weak internal waves or of weak fluctuations of background velocity would lead to a wake in the regime with momentum flux, and would allow prediction of the amplitude, width and Strouhal number of the wake.
Keyword:
TURBULENT WAKE
MOMENTUMLESS WAKE
REYNOLDS-NUMBER
INTERNAL WAVES
TOWED SPHERE
SIMILARITY
BODY
GENERATION
SIMULATION
MEMORY

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics 封面图
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
IF:
3.9
论文数:
2.0W
被引数:
9.4W

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