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Title: Investigation of ventilation demand variation in unsteady supercavitation
Authors: Yoon, Kyungduck
Li, Jiaqi
Shao, Siyao
Karn, Ashish
Hong, Jiarong
Keywords: Published Papers
Mechanical Engineering
Ventilated Supercavitation
Ventilation Hysteresis
Forward Facing Model
Issue Date: Nov-2021
Publisher: Elsevier
Abstract: Understanding the air injection strategy of a ventilated supercavity is important for designing high-speed underwater vehicles wherein an artificial gas pocket is created behind a flow separation device to reduce skin friction. Our study systematically investigates the effect of flow unsteadiness on the ventilation requirements to form (CQf ) and collapse (CQc) a supercavity. Imposing flow unsteadiness on the incoming flow has shown an increment in higher CQf at low free stream velocity and lower CQf at high free stream velocity. High-speed imaging reveals distinctly different behaviors in the recirculation region for low and high freestream velocity under unsteady flows. At low free stream velocities, the recirculation region formed downstream of a cavitator shifted vertically with flow unsteadiness, resulting in lower bubble collision and coalescence probability, which is critical for the supercavity formation process. The recirculation region negligibly changed with flow unsteadiness at high free stream velocity and less ventilation is required to form a supercavity compared to that of the steady incoming flow. Such a difference is attributed to the increased transverse Reynolds stress that aids bubble collision in a confined space of the recirculation region. CQc is found to heavily rely on the vertical component of the flow unsteadiness and the free stream velocity. Interfacial instability located upper rear of the supercavity develops noticeably with flow unsteadiness and additional bubbles formed by the distorted interface shed from the supercavity, resulting in an increased CQc. Further analysis on the quantification of such additional bubble leakage rate indicates that the development and amplitude of the interfacial instability accounts for the variation of CQc under a wide range of flow unsteadiness. Our study provides some insights on the design of a ventilation strategy for supercavitating vehicles in practice.
Description: Paper published in the journal Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 129 (2021), 110472
URI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2021.110472
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