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Experimental investigation of influence of Reynolds number on synthetic jet vortex rings impinging onto a solid wall

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Time-resolved particle image velocimetry was employed to study the effect of Reynolds number (Re sj) on synthetic jet vortex rings impinging onto a solid wall. Four Reynolds numbers ranging from 166 to 664 were investigated for comparison while other parameters were kept constant. It is found that the Reynolds number has a significant impact on the spatial evolution of near-wall vortical structures of the impinging synthetic jet. Velocity triple decomposition reveals that periodic Reynolds shear stresses produced by both impinging and secondary vortex rings agree well with a four-quadrant-type distribution rule, and the random velocity fluctuations are strengthened as Re sj increases. For radial wall jet, radial velocity profiles exhibit a self-similar behavior for all Re sj, and this self-similar profile gradually deviates from the laminar solution as Re sj is increased. In particular, the self-similar profile for low Re sj (166) coincides with the laminar solution indicating that periodic velocity fluctuations produced by vortex rings have little effect on the velocity profile of the laminar wall jet. This also provides evidence that the impinging synthetic jet is more effective in mixing than the continuous jet for the laminar flow. For the high Re sj, the mean skin friction coefficient has a slower decay rate after reaching peak, and the radial momentum flux has a higher value at locations far away from the impingement region, both of these can be attributed to the enhanced random fluctuations.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11327202 and 11502011), the program of China Scholarship Council (No. 201506020026) and the Academic Excellence Foundation of BUAA for PhD Students.

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    Yang Xu, GuoSheng He & JinJun Wang

  2. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA

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Xu, Y., He, G., Kulkarni, V. et al. Experimental investigation of influence of Reynolds number on synthetic jet vortex rings impinging onto a solid wall. Exp Fluids 58, 6 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00348-016-2287-5

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