Interfacial-fluid dynamics and the mixing efficiency of turbulent flows

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 4746-4749

  Catrakis, Haris J ^a   Aguirre, Roberto C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID DYNAMICS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MIXING; VOLUME FRACTION;

MIXED FLUIDS; MIXING TRANSITIONS; PURE FLUIDS; TURBULENT MIXING;

TURBULENT FLOW;

MIXING; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 22544438717     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1811671     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. K. R. Sreenivasan, R. Ramshankar, and C. Meneveau, " Mixing, entrainment and fractal dimensions of surfaces in turbulent flows, " Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. A 421, 79 (1989).
2. A. Roshko, "The mixing transition in free shear flows," in The Global Geometry of Turbulence, edited by, J. Jiménez, (Plenum, New York, 1991), pp. 3-11.
3. P.E. Dimotakis, "Turbulent free shear layer mixing and combustion," in High Speed Flight Propulsion Systems, edited by, S. Murthy, and, E. Curran, Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics Vol. 137 (AIAA, Washington, DC, 1991).
4. H.J. Catrakis, "Turbulence and the dynamics of fluid interfaces with applications to mixing and aero-optics." in Recent Research Developments in Fluid Dynamics, edited by, N. Ashgriz, and, R. Anthony, (Transworld Research Network, Kerala, India, 2004).
5. J. F. Broadwell and R. E. Briedenthal, "A simple model of mixing and chemical reaction in a turbulent shear layer," J. Fluid Mech. 125, 397 (1982).
6. J. E. Broadwell and M. G. Mungal. "Large-scale structures and molecular mixing," Phys. Fluids A 3, 1193 (1991).
7. G. F. King, J. C. Dutton, and R. P. Lucht, "Instantaneous, quantitative measurements of molecular mixing in the axisymmetric jet near field," Phys. Fluids 11, 403 (1999).
8. H. J. Catrakis, R. C. Aguirre, J. Ruiz-Plancarte, R. D. Thayne, B. A. McDonald, and J. W. Hearn, "Large-scale dynamics in turbulent mixing and the three-dimensional space-time behaviour of outer fluid interface," J. Fluid Mech. 471, 381 (2002).
9. H. J. S. Fernado, "Turbulent mixing in stratified fluids," Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. 23, 455 (1991).
10. M. C. Gregg, "The study of mixing in the ocean: A brief history," Oceanography 4, 39 (1991).
11. H. J. S. Fernando and J. C. R. Hunt, "Some aspects of turbulence and mixing in stably stratified fluids," Dyn. Atmos. Oceans 23, 35 (1996).
12. C. P. Caulfield and R. R Kerswell, "Maximal mixing rate in turbulent stably stratified Couette flow," Phys. Fluids 13, 894 (2001).
13. R. Everson, D. Manin, L. Sirovich, and M. Winter, "Quantification of mixing and mixing rate from experimental observations," AIAA J. 36, 121 (1998).
14. B. J. Geurts, "Mixing efficiency in turbulent shear layers," J. Turbul. 2, 1 (2001).
15. K. R. Sreenivasan, "Fractals and multifractals in fluid turbulence," Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. 23, 539 (1991).
16. E. Villermaux and C. Innocenti, "On the gemoetry of turbulent mixing," J. Fluid Mech. 393, 123 (1999).
17. Z. Warhaft, "Passive scalars in turbulent flows," Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. 32, 203 (2000).
18. H. J. Catrakis, R. C. Aguirre, J. Ruiz-Plancarte, and R. D. Thayne, "Shape complexity of whole-field three-dimensional space-time fluid interfaces in turbulence," Phys. Fluids 14, 3891 (2002).
19. E. T. Curran, W. H. Heiser, and D. T. Pratt, "Fluid phenomena in scramjet combustion systems," Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. 28, 323 (1996).
20. E. J. Gutmark, K. C. Schadow, and K. H. Yu, "Mixing enhancement in suspersonic free shear flows," Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. 27, 375 (1995).
21. E. J. Jumper and E. J. Fitzgerald, "Recent advances in aero-optics," Prog. Aerosp. Sci. 37, 299 (2001).
22. D. Papamoschou, T.T. Dixon, and K.A. Nishi, "Mean flow of multistream rectangular jets under normal and mixing-enhancement conditions," AIAA 42nd Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA 2004-0919, Reno, NV, 2004.
23. P. E. Dimotakis, "The mixing transition in turbulent flows," J. Fluid Mech. 409, 69 (2000).
24. H. J. Catrakis, R. C. Aguirre, and J. Ruiz-Plancarte, "Area-volume properties of fluid interfaces in turbulence: scale-local self-similiarity and cumulative scale dependence," J. Fluid Mech. 462, 245 (2002).
25. V.R. Kuznetsov and V.A. Sabel'nikov, Turbulence and Combustion (Hemisphere, Washington, DC, 1990).
26. M. M. Koochesfahani and P. E. Dimotakis, "Mixing and chemical reactions in a turbulent liquid mixing layer," J. Fluid Mech. 170, 83 (1986).
27. N.T. Clemens, " Flow imaging, " Encyclopedia of Imaging Science and Technology (Wiley, New York, 2002), pp. 390-419.
28. D. D. Joseph and L. Preziosi, "Heat waves," Rev. Mod. Phys. 61, 41 (1989).
29. D. K. Bisset, J. C. Hunt, and M. M. Rogers, "The turbulent/non-turbulent interface bounding a far wake," J. Fluid Mech. 451, 381 (2002).
30. A. Brandenburg, P. J. Käpylä, and A. Mohammed, "Non-Fickian diffusion and tau approximation from numerical turbulence," Phys. Fluids 16, 1020 (2004).