Affiliation:
1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 20634
Abstract
Buoyancy-driven bidirectional pulsating exchange flow through a vent in a horizontal partition is studied experimentally using a brine/water system. The associated transient and pulsating exchange flows were studied by densimetric measurements, flow visualization, and laser Doppler velocimetry (LDV) measurements for three different vent length-to-diameter ratios: 0.106, 0.0376, and 0.008. A time scale, based on the rate of decay of the density difference between the two compartments, is developed that collapses all experimental data regarding the decay of density in the top compartment into one curve. Flow visualization was used to understand the flow features contributing to the pulsating flow and to provide a quantitative measure of the major pulsation frequency. Interfacial instability between brine and water at the vent was found to contribute to the pulsation. The pulsation frequencies and their decay were determined from the power spectrum of LDV measurements. For the small length-to-diameter ratios (0.008 and 0.0376) there are two different frequencies that decay at different rates, suggesting multiple flow processes that contribute to flow pulsations.
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Condensed Matter Physics,General Materials Science
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