Coherent Structures in Turbulent Shear Layers and Relation to Mixing Reaction and Combustion.
Abstract
A number of numerical analyses served as experiments which led to a broad range of ideas about the dynamics of mixing layer. One theme which emerged early was the adversary role of vorticity and of deformation - two quanities which attempt to subjugate each other and whose competition is the subject matter of the development and growth to the shear flow. Another strand of the work follows a number of instabilities (two and three dimensional) which lead to recognizable non-linear motions. A third focus of the work relates vorticity and the mixing of scalars. The work started out to attempt to explain striking experimental results and ended by making a number of predictions which have not yet been experimentally established. A significant fraction, though not all of the typical motions which are dynamically plausible in a shear layer have been examined and given simple analytic representation. Finally the basis for the effective control of the shear layer has been laid.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1986
- Accession Number
- ADA167042
Entities
Organizations
- University of California, Berkeley