Experimental assessment of characteristic turbulent scales in two-phase flow of hydraulic jump: from bottom to free surface

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• 作者：Hang Wang ; Frédéric Murzyn
• 关键词：Integral length scale ; Integral time scale ; Bubbly ; flow turbulent scale ; Free ; surface turbulent scale ; Flow instability ; Turbulent shear layer
• 刊名：Environmental Fluid Mechanics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：17
• 期：1
• 页码：7-25
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• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：Earth Sciences, general; Environmental Physics; Hydrology/Water Resources; Classical Mechanics; Hydrogeology; Oceanography;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-1510
• 卷排序：17

文摘

A hydraulic jump is a turbulent shear flow with a free-surface roller. The turbulent flow pattern is characterised by the development of instantaneous three-dimensional turbulent structures throughout the air–water column up to the free surface. The length and time scales of the turbulent structures are key information to describe the turbulent processes, which is of significant importance for the improvement of numerical models and physical measurement techniques. However, few physical data are available so far due to the complexity of the measurement. This paper presents an investigation of a series of characteristic turbulent scales for hydraulic jumps, covering the length and time scales of turbulent flow structures in bubbly flow, on free surface and at the impingement point. The bubbly-flow turbulent scales are obtained for Fr = 7.5 with 3.4 × 104 < Re < 1.4 × 105 in both longitudinal and transverse directions, and are compared with the free-surface scales. The results highlight three-dimensional flow patterns with anisotropic turbulence field. The turbulent structures are observed with different length and time scales respectively in the shear flow region and free-surface recirculation region. The bubbly structures next to the roller surface and the free-surface fluctuation structures show comparable length and time scales, both larger than the scales of vortical structures in the shear flow and smaller than the scales of impingement perimeter at the jump toe. A decomposition of physical signals indicates that the large turbulent scales are related to the unsteady motion of the flow in the upper part of the roller, while the high-frequency velocity turbulence dominates in the lower part of the roller. Scale effects cannot be ignored for Reynolds number smaller than 4 × 104, mainly linked to the formation of large eddies in the shear layer. The present study provides a comprehensive assessment of turbulent scales in hydraulic jump, including the analyses of first data set of longitudinal bubbly-flow integral scales and transverse jump toe perimeter integral scales.