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Effect of polymer injection on the development of a trip-wire-induced bypass transitioning boundary layer

Yash Shah and Serhiy Yarusevych*

  • Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo N2L 3G1, Canada

  • *syarus@uwaterloo.ca
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Phys. Rev. Fluids 7, 093901 – Published 8 September, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.7.093901

Abstract

An experimental investigation is conducted to evaluate the effect of polymer injection on the development of a zero-pressure-gradient bypass transitioning boundary layer on a flat plate. Planar particle image velocimetry and planar laser-induced fluorescence measurements conducted at multiple streamwise stations allow for a characterization of the development of the bypass transition process induced by a two-dimensional trip wire in both Newtonian and polymer-injected flow. Two different trip placements with respect to the injection slot are considered to study the effect of polymer injection within the wake of the trip wire and within the laminar boundary layer upstream of the trip. The transition process is initiated in a separated shear layer downstream of the trip wire, where a rapid amplification of the velocity perturbations via an inflectional Kelvin-Helmholtz instability leads to vortex shedding and subsequent breakdown to turbulence. A similar transition process is observed with polymer injection, but a more rapid initial growth of perturbations is observed, leading to earlier transition. Nonetheless, an onset of polymer effect is seen in the late transition stages and leads to significant levels of drag reduction in the developing turbulent boundary layer.

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 7, 093901– Published 8 September, 2022
  • Received 23 September 2021
  • Accepted 8 August 2022
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