Introduction of Multiscaled Longitudinal Vortices by Fractal-Patterned Surface Roughness

• 作者: Manami Kosuda Masao Yokoyama Osamu Mochizuki Yoshihiro Kubota
• 来源期刊: 流量控制、测量及可视化(英文)
• 学科: 物理学
• 关键词: FRICTION Drag Reduction Surface ROUGHNESS FRACTAL Pattern VORTEX Flow VISUALIZATION
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（2）
• 页码范围: 120-132
• 页数: 13页
• 分类号: O3

摘要

To determine the type of surface roughness pattern that is suitable for adaptive suppression of the drag of an obstacle, we observed flow structures introduced by such obstacles. Several roughness patterns were tested: geometric patterns, fractal patterns, reptile-skin patterns, and patterns of circular cylinders arranged in a lattice and in a zigzag manner. A suitable pattern for adaptive control of flow is one that generates longitudinal vortices with nonconstant distances. The preferred instability mode of a laminar boundary layer is expected to be selected automatically from fluctuations involving many frequencies and caused by fractal patterns. Snake- and reptile-skin patterns may have a similar ability as fractal patterns because they consist of multiscale patterns. The longitudinal vortices generated from peculiar positions and concave corners in patterns were observed. The distance between these vortices is not constant because the onset of vortices is at concave corners in fractal patterns. These vortices have differing strengths and easily cause nonlinear interactions, so they can disturb a laminar boundary layer with several higher-harmonic frequencies. The velocity profiles of the laminar boundary-layer flow over the fractal patterns were measured by using hydrogen bubbles. The results show the down-wash flow between the longitudinal vortices, which means that the vortices may effectively suppress the boundary layer separation in an adverse pressure gradient.