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Starting vortex
About: Starting vortex is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4785 publications have been published within this topic receiving 100419 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived the auxiliary potentials that separate the total vortex force into lift and drag (or thrust) coefficients by using an elliptic airfoil, and the added-mass components of the lift and charge coefficients were also obtained analytically for any heaving motion of the air-foil and for any value of the mean angle of attack α.
Abstract: The thrust efficiency of a two-dimensional heaving airfoil is studied computationally for a low Reynolds number using a vortex force decomposition. The auxiliary potentials that separate the total vortex force into lift and drag (or thrust) are obtained analytically by using an elliptic airfoil. With these auxiliary potentials, the added-mass components of the lift and drag (or thrust) coefficients are also obtained analytically for any heaving motion of the airfoil and for any value of the mean angle of attack α. The contributions of the leading- and trailing-edge vortices to the thrust during their down- and up-stroke evolutions are computed quantitatively with this formulation for different dimensionless frequencies and heave amplitudes (Stc and Sta) and for several values of α. Very different types of flows, periodic, quasi-periodic, and chaotic described as Stc, Sta, and α, are varied. The optimum values of these parameters for maximum thrust efficiency are obtained and explained in terms of the inte...
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TL;DR: An aerodynamically shaped vortex generator has been proposed, manufactured and tested in a wind tunnel as mentioned in this paper, and the effect on the overall performance when applied on a thick airfoil is an increased lift to drag ratio compared with standard vortex generators.
Abstract: An aerodynamically shaped vortex generator has been proposed, manufactured and tested in a wind tunnel. The effect on the overall performance when applied on a thick airfoil is an increased lift to drag ratio compared with standard vortex generators. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a source term was added to the Navier-Stokes equations to simulate the lift force that would result from a vane-type vortex generator in the flowfield.
Abstract: A source-term model that simulates the effects of vortex generators was implemented into the Wind-US Navier-Stokes code. The source term added to the Navier-Stokes equations simulates the lift force that would result from a vane-type vortex generator in the flowfield. The implementation is user-friendly, requiring the user to specify only three quantities for each desired vortex generator: the range of grid points over which the force is to be applied and the planform area and angle of incidence of the physical vane. The model behavior was evaluated for subsonic flow in a rectangular duct with a single vane vortex generator, subsonic flow in an S-duct with 22 corotating vortex generators, and supersonic flow in a rectangular duct with a counter-rotating vortex-generator pair. The model was also used to successfully simulate microramps in supersonic flow by treating each microramp as a pair of vanes with opposite angles of incidence. The validation results indicate that the source-term vortex-generator model provides a useful tool for screening vortex-generator configurations and gives comparable results to solutions computed using gridded vanes.
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TL;DR: A new, fully three-dimensional, vortex-in-cell method designed to follow the unsteady motion of inviscid vortex sheets with or without small (Boussinesq) density discontinuities is presented and allows automatic, near-perfect conservation of circulation despite repeated stretching and folding of the interface.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a model for the qualitative description of recent experiments on vortex dipoles interaction is discussed, and the model appears to shed some light on what to expect in laboratory experiments.
Abstract: Two‐dimensional inviscid flows governed by a vortex pair in the presence of another point vortex or vortex pair on an unbounded plane are considered analytically and via numerical simulations. For some integrable cases of vortex motion, the stirring process of a fixed closed volume of surrounding fluid (‘‘atmosphere’’) initially trapped by vortex pair is investigated. Using the full classification of vortex movement types, it is shown that for all cases of vortex pair direct and exchange scattering the stirring process is regular. Some internal atmosphere regions conserve their existence and form after vortex interaction, resulting a ‘‘solitonlike’’ behavior. For general cases of vortex pair mutual trapping, the stirring process is chaotic. For limiting cases of vortex motions, the fluid particles reveal a regular behavior. A simple model for the qualitative description of recent experiments on vortex dipoles interaction is discussed. Although clearly an extreme idealization, the model appears to shed some light on what to expect in laboratory experiments.
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