Abstract
The present paper is the first part of a two-part report on a detailed investigation of periodic turbulent pipe flow. In this investigation, experimental data on instantaneous velocity and wall shear stress were obtained at a mean Reynolds number of 50000 in a fully developed turbulent pipe flow in which the volumetric flow rate was varied sinusoidally with time around the mean. Two oscillation frequencies at significant levels of flow modulation were studied in detail. The higher of these frequencies was of the order of the turbulent bursting frequency in the flow, and the other can be regarded as an intermediate frequency at which the flow still departed significantly from quasi-steady behaviour. While a few similar experiments have been reported in the recent literature, the present study stands out from the others in respect of the flow regimes investigated, the magnitude of flow modulation, the detailed nature of the measurements and most importantly the identification of a relevant parameter to characterize unsteady shear flows. The present paper contains the main experimental results and comparisons of these results with the results of a numerical calculation procedure which employs a well-known quasi-steady turbulence closure model. The experimental data are used to study the manner in which the time-mean, the ensemble-averaged and the random flow properties are influenced by flow oscillation at moderate to high frequencies. In addition, the data are also used to bring out the capability and limitations of quasi-steady turbulence modelling in the prediction of unsteady shear flows. A further and more detailed analysis of the experimental data, results of some additional experiments and a discussion on the characterization of turbulent shear flows are provided in Part 2 (Ramaprian & Tu 1983).
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Condensed Matter Physics
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