Investigation of dynamic mixedness characteristics of a transverse acoustically excited turbulent jet by high-repetition-rate acetone tracer planar laser-induced fluorescence technique

Abstract

The dynamic mixedness characteristics of a bluff-body stabilized turbulent jet under transverse acoustic excitations were investigated using high-repetition-rate acetone planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) at 7 kHz and multipoint scanning hot-wire measurements. Acetone mixedness imaging was applied for the turbulent jet to assess the interaction between the turbulent jet and the imposed transverse acoustic excitations at a driving frequency of 50 Hz. The high-repetition-rate acetone PLIF images showed that the acetone mixedness distribution swung left and right frequently under the transverse acoustic excitation, and the deflection angle could reach about 6°. The mixedness area of a turbulent jet flow could also be increased by 13.3% when excited by a transverse acoustic wave. Meanwhile, the sequence of instantaneous acetone PLIF images illustrated how the wrinkled edges were generated when acoustic excitations were imposed. The curvature of the acetone PLIF interface showed that the portion of large curvatures increased by 60% after applying an acoustic wave of 123 dB. Multipoint hot-wire measurements further stressed that the turbulent intensity at the transverse acoustic excitation of 123 dB increased to be about 1.3 times the natural turbulence. The proper orthogonal decomposition results showed that the large and small scales of the jet wrinkles both increased with the sound pressure level. RANS transient simulation also implied that distorted velocity streamlines could be achieved inside the turbulent jet due to the transverse acoustic excitation. They could further lead to inhomogeneous convection and increased mixing between the turbulent jet and the surrounding air.