Print Email Facebook Twitter Experimental and numerical study of cavitating flow around a surface mounted semi-circular cylinder Title Experimental and numerical study of cavitating flow around a surface mounted semi-circular cylinder Author Ghahramani, Ebrahim (Chalmers University of Technology) Jahangir, S. (TU Delft Fluid Mechanics) Neuhauser, Magdalena (ANDRITZ Hydro) Bourgeois, Sébastien (ANDRITZ Hydro) Poelma, C. (TU Delft Multi Phase Systems) Bensow, Rickard E. (Chalmers University of Technology) Date 2020 Abstract In this paper, the cavitating flow around a bluff body is studied both experimentally and numerically. The bluff body has a finite length with semi-circular cross section and is mounted on a surface in the throat of a converging-diverging channel. This set-up creates various 3D flow structures around the body, from cavitation inception to super cavities, at high Reynolds numbers (Re=5.6×104−2.2×105) and low cavitation numbers (σ=0.56−1.69). Earlier studies have shown this flow to be erosive and the erosion pattern varies by changing the flow rate and w/o the cylinder; hence, this study is an attempt to understand different features of the cavitating flow due to the cylinder effect. In the experiments, high-speed imaging is used. Two of the test cases are investigated in more detail through numerical simulations using a homogeneous mixture model. Non-cavitating simulations have also been performed to study the effect of cavitation on the flow field. Based on the observed results, vortex shedding can have different patterns in cavitating flows. While at higher cavitation numbers the vortices are shed in a cyclic pattern, at very low cavitation numbers large fixed cavities are formed in the wake area. For mid-range cavitation numbers a transitional regime is seen in the shedding process. In addition, the vapour structures have a small effect on the flow behaviour for high cavitation numbers, while at lower cavitation numbers they have significant influence on the exerted forces on the bluff body as well as vortical structures and shedding mechanisms. Besides, at very low cavitation numbers, a reverse flow is observed that moves upstream and causes the detachment of the whole cavity from the cylinder. Such a disturbance is not seen in non-cavitating flows. Subject Bluff bodyCavitationHigh speed imagingMultiphase flow To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:546582b9-a308-421c-92dc-1041864022a4 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2019.103191 Embargo date 2020-06-23 ISSN 0301-9322 Source International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 124 Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2020 Ebrahim Ghahramani, S. Jahangir, Magdalena Neuhauser, Sébastien Bourgeois, C. Poelma, Rickard E. Bensow Files PDF 1_s2.0_S0301932219304525_main.pdf 9.07 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:546582b9-a308-421c-92dc-1041864022a4/datastream/OBJ/view