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Three-Dimensional Laser-Doppler Velocimeter Measurements in Swirling Turbulent Pipe Flow

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The present work is an experimental study of the evolutioncharacteristics of swirl in the flow in a pipe at a moderately highReynolds number and over a wide range of swirl numbers characterisingthe swirl strength. The measurements are done by 3D LDV in a speciallydesigned facility that works on the principle of refractive-indexmatching. Swirl with the well-defined distribution of a constant angularvelocity is introduced into the test section of this facility by a swirlgenerating device in which a tube bundle in the pipe rotates about thepipe axis. The measurements have been processed to yield themean-velocity vector and the Reynolds stress tensor in this flow. Ananalysis of the measured evolution characteristics brings out a dominanteffect of swirl with a solid body rotation as the annihilation ofReynolds shear streses.

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Rocklage-Marliani, G., Schmidts, M. & Vasanta Ram, V.I. Three-Dimensional Laser-Doppler Velocimeter Measurements in Swirling Turbulent Pipe Flow. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion 70, 43–67 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:APPL.0000004913.82057.81

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