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Some Aspects Of Flow Through Rotating Circular Tubes, D. L. Boyer, J. R. Guala

Symposia on Turbulence in Liquids

The flow of water in a circular tube rotating about an axis perpendicular to the axis of the tube is studied. Information about the flow is obtained from coated hot-film probes and a constant temperature anemometer. A maximum Reynold's number of 9,500 is obtained and the Taylor number is varied from 800 to 3,100. Little similarity is found to exist between flows in rotating and in non-rotating systems in this range of parameters.

Measurements Of Turbulence Characteristics In Water And In Dilute Polymer Solutions, Tadeusz Kowalski

Symposia on Turbulence in Liquids

Measurements of turbulence characteristics were made inside a boundary layer in external flow of water and in water with polymer additives of the Polyox type. Flush mounted hot-film sensors and wedge, parabolic, and cylindrical sensors were used to measure the turbulent velocity fluctuations. Graphs are given of energy density, dissipation, turbulence shear correlation spectra, and microscale of turbulence distribution. Tests were run in an open channel flow at one Reynolds number and two rates of polymer injection to give 20 and 40 ppm average concentration in the boundary layer. The results indicate that the advent of the quartz insulated hot-film …

A Simple Observational Technique For The Investigation Of Boundary Layer Stability And Turbulence, Tony Maxworthy

Symposia on Turbulence in Liquids

A dense suspension of aluminum flakes in a fluid has many advantages as a flow-visualization method, and has been used to study circular Couette flow and Benard instability, among others. In the present contribution the scientific and pedagogical merits of the technique are examined further for three different cases: (a) Stability of Poiseuille flow; (b) Stability of the side-wall boundary layers created when a fluid-filLed, rotating container is suddenly brought to rest; (b) Stability of the boundary layer beneath a concentrated vortex.

The technique is also useful in other cases, especially when fundamentals of fluid flow are to be demonstrated …

Measurements Of Density Fluctuations In Submerged Water Jets, L. N. Wilson, D. W. Prosser

Symposia on Turbulence in Liquids

A remote sensing technique, free from many of the problems associated with Inserting probes into a liquid flow, has been developed to measure turbulent density fluctuations In a low speed, submerged water jet. The technique employs two schlieren optical systems, composed of He-Ne lasers and photo detectors. The optical beams intersect in the flow in a plane perpendicular to the flow direction. Knife edges are aligned such that the systems are sensitive to gradients of refractive index in the flow direction. An analysis is presented which relates the cross-covariance of the two signals to the local two-point refractive-index covariance and …

Effect Of Dilute Polymer Solutions On External Boundary Layers, Brian Latto, J. A. Middleton

Symposia on Turbulence in Liquids

The paper reports an experimental study of the flow of homogeneous aqueous polyacrylamide MRL 402 solution over a thin flat plate. Extensive velocity profile data were obtained, using both cylindrical and conical hot-file probes, and used to obtain local skin friction profiles. Direct drag measurements were made over a period of time for concentrations of 0, 25, 50 and 75 wppm and indicated that there was no appreciable degradation of the polymer. Extensive turbulence intensity data were obtained which were contradictory but indicated that the conical type probe is better than the cylindrical type for turbulence measurements and that the …

Conference Proceedings Of The Symposium On Turbulence Measurements In Liquids, September 1969, University Of Missouri--Rolla

Symposia on Turbulence in Liquids

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