An experimental investigation of the flow inside a rectangular cylinder with air injected continuously along the wall is performed. This kind of flow is a two-dimensional approximation of what happens inside a solid rocket motor, where the lateral grain burns expelling exhaust gas or in processes with air filtration or devices to attain uniform flows. We propose a brief derivation of some analytical solutions and a comparison between these solutions and experimental data, which are obtained using the Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) technique, in order to provide a global reconstruction of the flowfield. The flow, which enters orthogonal to the injecting wall, turns suddenly its direction being pushed towards the exit of the chamber. Under the incompressible and inviscid flow hypothesis, two analytical solutions are reported and compared. The first one, known as Hart-McClure solution, is irrotational and the injection velocity is non-perpendicular to the injecting wall. The other one, due to Taylor and Culick, has non-zero vorticity and constant, vertical injection velocity. The comparison with laminar solutions is useful to assess whether transition to turbulence is reached and how the disturbance thrown in by the porous injection influences and modifies those solutions.

An experimental study of wall-injected flows in a rectangular cylinder / Perrotta, A.; Romano, G. P.; Favini, B.. - In: EXPERIMENTS IN FLUIDS. - ISSN 0723-4864. - STAMPA. - 59:1(2018). [10.1007/s00348-017-2472-1]

An experimental study of wall-injected flows in a rectangular cylinder

A. Perrotta
;
G. P. Romano;B. Favini
2018

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An experimental investigation of the flow inside a rectangular cylinder with air injected continuously along the wall is performed. This kind of flow is a two-dimensional approximation of what happens inside a solid rocket motor, where the lateral grain burns expelling exhaust gas or in processes with air filtration or devices to attain uniform flows. We propose a brief derivation of some analytical solutions and a comparison between these solutions and experimental data, which are obtained using the Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) technique, in order to provide a global reconstruction of the flowfield. The flow, which enters orthogonal to the injecting wall, turns suddenly its direction being pushed towards the exit of the chamber. Under the incompressible and inviscid flow hypothesis, two analytical solutions are reported and compared. The first one, known as Hart-McClure solution, is irrotational and the injection velocity is non-perpendicular to the injecting wall. The other one, due to Taylor and Culick, has non-zero vorticity and constant, vertical injection velocity. The comparison with laminar solutions is useful to assess whether transition to turbulence is reached and how the disturbance thrown in by the porous injection influences and modifies those solutions.
2018
wall injected flows, PIV; confined flows; rocket engines
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An experimental study of wall-injected flows in a rectangular cylinder / Perrotta, A.; Romano, G. P.; Favini, B.. - In: EXPERIMENTS IN FLUIDS. - ISSN 0723-4864. - STAMPA. - 59:1(2018). [10.1007/s00348-017-2472-1]
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