Abstract
The oblique interaction of a turbulent vortex ring with a clean water surface is experimentally investigated during the transition stage using Digital Particle Image Velocimetry (DPIV) and the shadowgraph technique to map the surface velocity and deformation field simultaneously. The transitional vortex-ring/free-surface interaction leads to the formation of a trifurcation pattern at the free surface. Similar to the laminar flow case, the vortex ring initially bifurcates into two symmetric and separately connected vortex loops. The turbulent break-up of those vortex loops results in the formation of longitudinal wake vortices that symmetrically connect to the surface and eventually lead to a trifurcation pattern. In the absence of large-deformation surface waves, the simultaneous DPIV and shadowgraph measurements reveal good agreement between the surface vorticity and deformation field for small- and large-scale vortical structures. The simultaneous measurement technique is not restricted to the qualitative shadowgraph visualization, but can be easily extended to quantitative methods such as grating-imaging techniques, Color Schlieren, or Color Surface Mapping (CSM) techniques.
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