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Self-sustained oscillations in a low-viscosity round jet

V. Srinivasan*, X. Tan, E. Whitely, I. Wright, A. Dhotre, and J. Yang

  • *Contact author: vinods@umn.edu
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Phys. Rev. Fluids 9, 083902 – Published 12 August, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.9.083902

Abstract

The effect of viscosity contrast between a jet and its surroundings is experimentally investigated using density-matched fluids. A gravity-driven flow is established with a jet of saltwater emerging into an ambient medium composed of high-viscosity propylene glycol. Jet Reynolds numbers, Re, ranging from 1600 to 3400 were studied for an ambient-to-jet viscosity ratio, M, between 1 and 50. Visualization suggests that at low values of the viscosity ratio, the jet breakdown mode is axisymmetric, while helical modes develop at high values of viscosity ratio. The transition between these two modes is attempted to be delineated using a variety of diagnostic tools. Hot-film anemometry measurements indicate that the onset of the helical mode is accompanied by the appearance of a discrete peak in the frequency spectrum of velocity fluctuations, which exhibits little spatial variation for the first several diameters in the downstream direction. Laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) is used to identify the jet boundary against the background. An analysis of high-speed images acquired using the LIF technique enables identification of the spatial growth rate of waves on the jet boundary, as well as the frequency of oscillation of the weakly diffusive interface. Temporal fluctuations of fluorescence intensity are found to be spatially invariant in the jet near field, further attesting to behavior consistent with that of a self-sustained oscillation whose frequency depends on the viscosity ratio. The observed frequencies show trends similar to those of absolutely unstable modes calculated from spatiotemporal linear stability theory presented in a companion paper. Spectral proper orthogonal decomposition was used to analyze the images and identify the various spatial modes, and suggests the existence of a single dominant mode. Together, these observations provide strong circumstantial evidence for the existence of a global mode that arises from the absolute instability of velocity and viscosity profiles in a region close to the nozzle exit plane.

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 9, 083902– Published 12 August, 2024
  • Received 17 December 2023
  • Accepted 23 July 2024
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