2014/02/24 by Ping Lü, Ping Lu, Qin Li +4 · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn) #Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows #Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis #Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations #physics.flu-dyn
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1402.5877
49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting
arxiv created 2014/02/24 · openalex publication_date 2014/02/24 · arxiv updated 2014/02/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
This paper illustrates the mechanism of U-shaped vortex formation which is found both by experiment and DNS. The main goal of this paper is to explain how the U-shaped vortex is formed and further develops. According to the results obtained by our direct numerical simulation with high order accuracy, the U-shaped vortex is part of the coherent vortex structure and is actually the tertiary streamwise vortices induced by the secondary vortices. The new finding is quite different from existing theories which describe that the U-shaped vortex is newly formed as the head of young turbulence spot and finally break down to small pieces. In addition, we find that the U-shaped vortex has the same vorticity sign as the original λ-shaped vortex tube legs and serves as a second neck to supply vorticity to the ringlike vortex when the original vortex tube is stretched and multiple rings are generated.