Abstract
Interaction of a weak planar shock wave with double heavy gas cylinders has been investigated, focusing on coupling effect on the post-shock flow. In experiments, the ideal two-dimensional discontinuous double heavy gas cylinders with controllable initial conditions are generated by soap film technique, and the shocked flow is captured by a high-speed schlieren photography. Two different initial center spacings of cylinders are considered to highlight the coupling effect. As the center spacing reduces, the coupling effect occurs earlier and becomes more prominent. The coupling effect greatly promotes the inner vortex motions near the symmetry axis relative to the outer ones, resulting in the formation of the mushroom and twisted jets. The fusion of the inner vortices completely differs from the observation in previous experimental work in which the inner vortices separate from each other. Quantitatively, the motion of the upstream interface in streamwise direction is obtained, and can be predicted by a nonlinear model considering the coupling effect. Besides, a vortex model is proposed based on the induction equation of point vortex, and the effect of the mutual interferences among vortices on the vortex motions can be well evaluated.
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